Mexico :)

[Lindsey]

My tummy rumbles are gone

I was ready to say something but I didn't want to cause an even bigger fight. I was more upset than Scott was, he told me that he's used to it because that's how he's been treated his whole life. My heart broke for him because nobody should feel they deserve to be treated that way! We are all adults, I think it's time some people start acting like it. It really didn't matter to us if we were invited into their exclusive little clique or not. We had more fun (and less expensive fun) with everyone else anyway

My dad loves to travel but my mom hasn't done much traveling so I'm glad she went on that trip! She just got her passport in December especially for Mexico. She's already talking about her next trip down there and other places she'd like to go. Her income tax return this year is getting put away for next winter's trip It's good for her and my dad both to get out of their regular lives for awhile I think so I'm really happy we convinced them to go this year!

For myself, it was my last trip for awhile. Hopefully by fall of 2011 Scott and I will have enough holiday time and money saved to go to Europe for 3 weeks (it's our next big plan!) but on the other hand we have found our absolute dream house and are on the fence on whether to keep that in mind or leave it for a few years... plus the cost of a wedding these days is pretty big We're talking seriously about wedding plans (location, guests, etc), but he's slow on the proposal lol

[DianaB]

I would love to travel and I'm hoping that now with the last of our kids to move out soon that, maybe, we will. Glen bought a new pickup the other day and a fifth wheel hitch will fit in it and we have some info on a fifth wheel camper that maybe we can get a good deal on. Hopefully we'll be doing some checking on it soon. I'm excited!! We have a popup but it's really on it's last leg and I've been talking about getting something different.

I know that we probably won't be traveling like you do, Lindsey, but even just a little bit around our area will be fun. I would love to see Europe!!!

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by DianaB

I would love to travel and I'm hoping that now with the last of our kids to move out soon that, maybe, we will. Glen bought a new pickup the other day and a fifth wheel hitch will fit in it and we have some info on a fifth wheel camper that maybe we can get a good deal on. Hopefully we'll be doing some checking on it soon. I'm excited!! We have a popup but it's really on it's last leg and I've been talking about getting something different.

I know that we probably won't be traveling like you do, Lindsey, but even just a little bit around our area will be fun. I would love to see Europe!!!

Sorry Lindsay to grab your thread to reply to Diana......... but..........Diana! I hope you do buy the 5th wheel and start traveling. I'm so glad that we bought our early ~13 years ago. If we had waited, Gary would have gotten heart trouble, and we probably never would have been brave enough to do it after that. Getting it early, before we retired, we were able to travel some and get used to it so that after he got sick, we knew we could still travel (although we downsized) and do just fine.

It is so much fun to just jump in the pickup, hook up the trailer and go somewhere for the weekend or week.

DO IT!

[judy]

This is great news Lindsey...a house, a wedding, 3 weeks in Europe with Scott!

WOW!!!

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by judy

This is great news Lindsey...a house, a wedding, 3 weeks in Europe with Scott!

WOW!!!

Lol that's my plan anyway! We'll see what actually happens, or how long it all takes lol!

We're going for a showing at the house tomorrow after work, but we had a big discussion about it last night and unless we absolutely love it and can't live without it, we're going to pass it up for now. It's 20 minutes out of the city which would be great to live in a small town, but might be an annoying drive every day (plus extra cost for gas), and we'd be giving up things we love to do like traveling... not just for ourselves but also to visit friends and family. And we would each be paying at least double what we're paying now for our mortgage. I wish we would have found the house 3 or 4 years down the road!

[judy]

You will find the perfect house when the time is right Linds!

By the way, have you posted pix of Mexico yet? On FB maybe? I love your pix.

[Lindsey]

Lol not yet! Actually while we were down there, Scott's camera stopped working (and still won't work!) so we used my grandma's camera for awhile. We don't have many pictures, but we've been trying to compile everyone's pictures to put on a disc for each person. We're still waiting on one SD card though!

By the way, that house was AMAZING. It's an old character home from 1916, a historic Eaton's catalogue home. Back then, you could order your house from Eaton's (huge department store back in the day) through their catalogue and the whole thing would be shipped to you by train and you would just put it together on your farm site! So that's pretty neat!

Anyways, there is a photo album left with the house showing the people who bought it in 1997. It was an old looking building that was completely weathered and grey! The pictures go on to show them stripping it to the studs, and moving it to town onto a new full height basement, and adding an addition to the back. The electrical and plumbing is all new, it has TWO furnaces (both with air conditioning) so you can control temperatures on different floors. They also added a large two-car garage.

The main floor has a gigantic kitchen with an island with cooktop, built-in oven, lots of newer cabinets, THREE sinks under the kitchen window, and another small sink on a bar area on the other side! There's also a little eating nook, formal dining room, living room with gorgeous pillars, and the addition has a laundry room just off the garage entrance, and a HOT TUB ROOM Oh and a bathroom.

The second level has three bedrooms and a gorgeous bathroom with a corner jet tub and a separate shower. There is also a second floor balcony on the front of the house.

The third level is a large 18x18 open room with three dormer windows.

Oh yeah, and the basement is unfinished, but already has walls constructed and drywalled for another bedroom, and a bathroom is roughed in.

I don't know if we can pass it up... it would be the perfect home for raising a family, in a small town and just a block from the school. We'd never run out of room! And it's double the size of something we could get for the same price in the city.