Finally!

Written by Heidi. Finally we got into our house (see photo above of the little guys who were very patient) and finally I am writing a post to say a little more about it!

To start a bit from the beginning... We drove to Louisville on Sunday, November 27. It was a pretty easy trip. The boys are fairly good in the car on trips anymore... and on this one they were in separate cars! In one vehicle was Mom (me), Davis and Duke. In the other was Dad (Derek), Dawson and both cats (Larry and Thomas). Along with each group were piles and piles of the extra stuff we wanted to bring with us. The movers were not unloading our furniture at our new house until Thursday. We wanted to be prepared with a few things while camping out in the house. The last couple of hours were driven in the dark and in the rain. It was nasty, but we thankfully made it without incident.

We expected our walk-through to be Monday, the 28th, at 10:15am and that actually happened as planned! We got so excited walking though the house! The people before us were super nice and had cleaned everything! The cabinets were dusted out, the carpets were cleaned, and not a cobweb was to be seen! The two things I was most excited about (the separate dinette area and walk-in pantry) were ready for us to move in and enjoy!

But we were waiting on the appraisal paperwork to be forwarded to the bank for all the final paperwork to be done. We waited and waited.

Our first night (Sunday, when we first got into town) was at a lovely Drury Inn and Suites. The downfall to this evening was that the dog was not thrilled about riding the elevator to the fifth floor. He was not too keen about the stairs, either. But it was just one night, so we made due with this. The cats had traveled surprisingly well. We did not have to sedate them at all and they seemed to be pretty normal. So normal, in fact, that they woke at 3am ready to eat and play. This is their regular routine... this is why we keep them in the basement of our house at night. :-)  So, out to the car they went at 3am... in the rain... in our jammies.

Monday, after checkout, was spent hanging out. Animals in the car and us at various places, but mostly at the Barnes and Noble (as referred to in a previous post). We didn't want to get tied into something like sight-seeing or taking in a movie, because we wanted to ready to go when the bank was ready to go with the closing! We wanted to get into the house!

But the paperwork never came. The bank said they were sorry, but that we had to get another hotel room for another night. The Drury Inn and Suites was booked. We found something at a Residence Inn that accepted pets... except that it was one of their premier rooms (cha-$$$-ching!). LUCKILY, the bank said that they would pay for the room... and we are still waiting for them to reimburse us!

The premier room was awesome!  We wished we had made the stay for the first night there! On the main level was a kitchen, dining table and living room area (with pull-out bed in the sofa) with a bedroom off of that with it's own bathroom. Up some stairs was a loft with another bedroom and it's own bathroom! This accommodated us very well! (And you see Larry enjoying the ledge of the loft in the photo. He felt like a king, I am sure, from there!)

We waited until the very last minute to check out from that hotel. We were comfortable there! And this extra night in a hotel was a blessing in disguise. While we were upset to not be in our house, at least we had had another night on a bed instead of sleeping on the floor in the new house! But we still hadn't heard anything about a scheduled time for our closing.

So, we waited and waited. Again, we were hoping Tuesday to be the day we took the boys to see The Muppets in the theater, but did not want to get tied down to anything should the closing pop up (ha ha ha!). We eventually did look around our end of town a bit.  We drove by where we thought the boys might go to school (ha ha ha!!! THIS is another story to be told later!!!) and we checked out some of the stores around that we might be shopping at. We heard NOTHING until 3pm and that is when we knew the closing would be at 5pm.

The closing went relatively fast and we were in possession of house keys and heading to our new home by 6:30pm. We were there for about 15 minutes and then went out to Red Robin for dinner. :-)