Sand In My Toes

Tuesday night we drove a half hour away from where we would close on the house, to stay in a hotel for the night.  We had a hard time finding a suitable place that would allow our cats.

We walked into the hotel room, finding the AC running on the lowest setting it would go.  The room was 57 degrees.  We soon found out the heat was not working at all.  I reported it to the front desk and someone came by to take a look.  Unfortunately, he could not fix it and the hotel was completely booked.  They called their engineer in, he could not fix it, but we got a space heater for the room, $50 knocked of the room rate and free breakfast.  All in all, it was worth it for the reduction in rate.

We slept well and the kids and I went swimming in the morning.  Swimming first thing in the morning does a lot to make it feel like vacation time.  We packed up our stuff and got on the road back to our town to close.  We originally planned to close at 10:00am  but swapped times with the buyer in hopes of getting our check from the sale (something has to pay for that trailer!).  We were there in enough time to pass on the keys and to briefly meet the buyers.

Closing was pretty quick.  Many signatures and forms...  On our way out we exchanged gifts with our agent, wine for her and a travel pack for us and the kids.  (How awesome is our agent?  Organic treats for the kiddos!)
As we packed up to leave, our closer came out and asked us to wait for the ok from the buyer's lender so the check would be valid.  We waited.  We waited some more.  We ended up waiting for over an hour.  It was as if that little town wanted to keep us in it's clutches.

When we finally left, we felt lighter than air.  That house has been a horrible weight on us and now I feel so free.