A little flashback to our househunting trip to Seattle:
We crammed a TON into our 48 hour trip to Seattle. We spent
the first day looking at houses. We met up with a realtor (assigned to us by
Microsoft), and we drove in his stick-shift, 2-door civic. The intense cologne
smell remind me of 7th grade - when all the boys wore WAY to much cologne - and
thought the more the better ;-). I kept getting car sick riding in the back of
this car, winding through the neighborhoods looking for the next house, covered
in dog hair (from his 2 dogs), while cold and wet, from the rain. WELCOME to
Seattle!
This first impression was not a good one for me. By the end
of the day, I was car sick, cold, wet, tired of looking at bad houses and had a
headache from the musty smell in the homes we'd looked at. I was discouraged. The next
morning we decided to hit the Temple before we continue with our house hunting.
It was a great session, and we headed to explore the neighborhoods again.
We'd
narrowed it down to an area we thought would work well for our family.
Unfortunately, there weren't a ton of houses available right now. And if a good
one came on the market, it was snatched up so quick.
Our trip was winding down quickly, and we still didn't have a home we could move into in 2 weeks. I kept hitting, refresh, refresh, refresh on craigslist,
desperately hoping for any new listings to come up. Saturday afternoon, a new
one popped up. We called on it, and went straight to see it. We immediately
fell in love and were fortunate to rent it for the next 2 years. It is
in a cute neighborhood, with parks and a forest greenbelt backed up to our backyard. And the bonus part is its only about 4 minutes from our dear friends!
It's amazing how throughout this whole process of getting a
job with Microsoft, finding a house, finding a renter for our AZ house, moving
up here, etc. the Lord has had his hand in it. We'd feel super discouraged -
and then it would all work out - everything would fall right into place. We
truly felt like this is where we should be (I'm not sure why or how), but
hopefully we'll learn that later :-)
Dan admiring an enormous fish at Pike's Place Market, in downtown Seattle. The next pictures are of downtown seattle next to the Puget Sound.
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