We knew they'd come calling!

The cute blue house we really wanted to buy at the end of June is still for sale. The sellers have come-a-calling, like we suspected they would.

Actually, I was told the house had sold, but apparently that guy was thinking about a blue house on the other end of the block.

It's small, (Major change from the house in Sharpsville/kokomo,) but has that awesome basement. My boss lives on the road behind it, she says it's a great little subdivision.

So we bargained, you know, did our thing and basically it came up a little short, and we dropped the offer all together.

Last month the price was down from 112,000 to $109,000. Now it is at $104,000. It is an estate, and I guess they found out they wanted it sold worse than they thought.

Perhaps they shouldn't have been so greedy. Realtor called, said she got a call wanting to know if we were still interested.... um.... as much we'd love to laugh in their faces....we're thinking about it....

Brought the Jamaican Goods Home:

Yummy! Jerk Chicken Lettuce Cups! It was ...HOT! We used you Jerk sauce that we bought in Jamaica. Makes you want some doesn't it?

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I have added a link to our amazing friend Sandy's site - Check out Sandy in Romania ! You can find her link anytime in the Link's You Need section.

Chicago Air Show

That's right, we went~ I know you wouldn't know because we I didn't post about it~

But here's our proof! It was a wonderful day in Chicago. We took the SouthShore...and sat on the beach at first. It got super windy and stormy so we packed up our camp. It was pouring down rain...at the other beach!!! Haha, we had a quick stint of wind and rain for about one minute, then it was gone and sunny at our beach.

The show was delayed, because the other beach was where they were doing the stunts, wind was to much in the sky, and lots of clouds. So after a few hours of a "hit or miss" air show, we walked around downtown. Then we were almost back to the station when Chris goes, "I hear planes. I hear FAST PLANES!" So.. we rush back to the beach and get to see a few more stunt planes, then the Thunderbirds.

COLTS GAME

Woo! Kim Rocks! She totally scored us some majorly awesome seats to the Preseason game last week!

Our View with no zoom - It was AWESOME!

Talk about busy...

I've been busy! Update tonight with our picture from section 105 row 18 of the COLT'S GAME!! Haha, talk about exciting!

History Lesson

The Nina and the Pinta sailed on in to the marina here in town last week. They were made in Brazil and are owned by a historical foundation. You could only walk the decks and look at pictures and notes on the walls. Below decks was off limits because the fire department said we couldn't go down there since there was no other exit. Then the Coast Guard wouldn't allow people on the upper, upper (?) deck of the Nina because of something. But it was fun and educational at the same time....imagine that.

Washington Park Zoo

We also enjoyed visiting the Zoo.

At The Derby

Here are pictures from the G-town Derby!! Not too many drivers this year, but the boys had a great time all the same. Austin shot the cork gun, and hit a cup on the nearly empty wall his first try. He won a scrappy doo knock off doll. We went with Casi, Austin and Devon.... Kris and Dustin met us there a little later.

Love the Furlough...

...embrace the furlough....

While the downfall of the furlough was a financial burden...

I have to admit we had a good time continuing our vacation here in MC because of it.

Monday and Tuesday I didn't work until noon, so we spent the mornings actually making pancakes for breakfast, watching a movie, and working on the computers. Oh and my car broke, so Chris is going to fix it tomorrow..but we haven't let that stress us out.

I had yesterday and today off, so yesterday we hung out, cleaned the house in the morning and rode our bikes to the park. The beach looked wonderful, it was not crowded and the waves were really big. We had a BOGO coupon for the Zoo, so for $4.50 we made our way around the park zoo. Then we came home, cleaned up,went out for some Chinese food picked up Confessions of a Shop-a-holic, blew up the couch/bed air mattress and watched the movie. Yay, relaxing days like that really do exist.

Today we spent ALL morning (yes until noon) sitting on the porch. Chris played withthe scanner and searched for frequncy numbers. I read a couple chapters of "The girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King and played online. Chris made lunch on the grill and now we are going to watch Cool Runnings then head to the Marina to tour the Nina and Pinta mobile ship museums that have docked here in MC till Sunday. Then we will probably do some dinner and finish relaxing...

My goodness I love just relaxing - we'll have to do it more often.

Thought we'd share this funny clip of the monkey thing trying to move the log.The lady had just cleaned and he seemed to not like where she put it.

We do not like thiefs

We come home from vacation to be told our lawnmower had been stolen and later we're told our wii games that our neighbor borrowed have been stolen too. So now we have no wii games at all - every one of them was in the game case that we gave to the neighbor to play including Mario Kart! The neighbor is pretty sure she knows who took them, and is sure they have already been pawned. She said they would replace them...I sure hope so - the guy is home from vacation now so we are going to talk to him, but if not then we are going to have to file a report so we can our money back to replace them. Grr... the guy who she thinks stole them is locked up at the moment as he was shoplifting from Sears and while he was running to get away, he dropped his wallet. haha. Now i just want my games back. Thief's suck.

Vacation Expenses

We figured out all of our vacation expenses and we're quite happy about it. We're sharing our break down to help recruit friends and family to join us on our next vacation in 2011 to Sandals Royal Caribbean...see how affordable it is.... :)

Here's the breakdown:

Hotel: $1200.00
Airfare: $ 816.00
Parking: $ 80.00
Travel Food: $ 42.00
Hats: $ 35.00
Shirts: $ 53.00
Gifts: $ 97.00
Medicine: $ 9.00
Internet: $ 39.00

Grand total...... $2371.00

Or... if you want to go, but not with us (we'll let you, it's okay,) we'd appreciate if you let us know so we can get referral points. :)

- GPA Maintained -

::::Cheers:::: Finally got my summer course grades. Transition course and Sociology = A's. Only 10 classes left. Registered and waiting on book delivery for fall classes... Chemistry, Math for El Ed Teachers I and Computers in Education.

Vacation Pictures