Our Stuff Comes Tommorow
Sorry it's been a few days. We've been settling in. On Friday, we got to our new house. We met our new landlady. She is really nice, especially compared to our landlords in Kodiak. Our yard is huge!!! It's so awesome!!! It's bigger than we thought. The house is cute. It's really bare right now because we have no furniture. But our furniture is being delivered tommorow (Thursday). We signed all the papers for renting the house. Even though it's only three bedrooms, it's definately bigger than our house in Kodiak. We got the animals settled and went to find something to sleep on that night and until we get our furniture. We figured on just buying another futon. We found "The Futon Factory" which sells all different kinds of futons, but they are made here in Washington. We looked around and the queen sized futon caught my eye. We've been complaining about needing a bigger couch, but haven't yet found one we like. Well, they had one that matched our other futon. We debated about it and then decided to get it. The only problem was that it worked out to be $900, which was a lot more than we had been planning on spending. The warranty and upgrade to a spring mattress sealed the deal though. So, we bought it and brought it home. It's pretty comfortable. We figured we'd put our other futon (a regular sized one) in the guest bedroom. We're going to upgrade to a spring mattress right before my mom gets here in August, when we have some more money.
The animals are settling in. Mike has been a bad kitty the past couple days. He ran out of the house three times and ran around the yard until we could catch him. We learned from the neighbor kids that there is a really tough neighborhood cat, so no unattended outside for the kitties. I'm getting ahead of myself, but the neighbor kids and the kids from across the street are really nice. We met them and introduced them to the dogs. They really got a kick out of Flash's tricks. Fawkes behaved very nicely, but we didn't let him out of the yard yet as he can become almost a 100 pounds of goofball. We're working on that. The dogs really love the yard. Flash has been sunbathing every chance she gets. Fawkes loves running around.
On Saturday, we drove around. The downtown Edmonds is such a cute little area. There are great stores and a couple cute restaurants. And, best of all, they have a natural pet supplies store that has all the dog and cat food stuff I need. It's a great little store. And the prices are unbeatable!! Well, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration. When they told me the total for my pet food, I said "Oh WOW!!!" The girl ringing me up kinda cringed. I explained that it was a good "Oh WOW" and briefly explained the prices while living in Kodiak. They understood.
We continued driving around and went to Target and Fred Meyer, and NO WALMART!! :-) As that was pretty much the only store to shop at in Kodiak, we won't be doing much shopping there anymore. We checked out a bunch of natural food stores and went to another natural pet supplies store to pick up piggie food.
Then we headed to Whole Foods. We drove around a bit trying to find the store. We finally called and it turns out I wrote the address down wrong. I felt bad, but considering that's the first time I did that all the way from Kodiak, I didn't feel too bad. We got there and were stunned to silence. The selection was unbelievable!! We walked around and I found all kinds of stuff that I would be able to eat. We went through the whole store, but didn't shop yet. We hadn't planned on buying, only looking. We did go back on Sunday though. We finished the evening with dinner at Ivar's Acres of Clams, a seafood restaurant (obviously) downtown. It was very delicious. It was a nice celebration dinner for getting here in one piece and finding a place to live and everything.
On Sunday, we went grocery shopping. We took three hours, going up and down every aisle. Because of my many food allergies, I have to read pretty much every label to see if I can eat the things I'm interested in. We got two full carts of food and spent just under $500. I know that's pretty crazy, but let me explain. I found out about the food allergies while up in Kodiak. I wasn't able to find very much variety of things I could eat that wouldn't cause me reactions. It was very difficult. Plus, prices were so high up there that even when we did find stuff, it cost an arm and a leg. Often we would leave the store wondering how it could cost so much for the little that we got. Yes, we spent $500 at Whole Foods, but we felt like we got our money's worth, as we had two full grocery carts worth of stuff. I was so excited! I was such a dork, but it was so nice to have a variety of things to eat. You don't really understand unless you have been limited with what you can eat and what's available.
After completing our large shopping spree, we realized that we didn't have a pantry. Well, we have one, but the furnace fills it. We went to Target to get a pantry cabinet and another small cabinet for in the kitchen. We looked and looked, but couldn't find the cabinet I had seen. I knew I wasn't crazy, but we couldn't find it. We finally decided on something else and had left and come back to the aisle twice when we both saw the cabinet at the same time, on the bottom shelf towards the back, mostly hidden. We put the other option back and got the cabinet. Paul put them together yesterday.
So, we're here and getting settled. We still have to take an exploratory walk around the neighborhood. It's really cute here though. We're really happy with the area we're in. I almost forgot. The neighbor girl from across the street made us cupcakes to welcome us. It was really sweet. Well, Paul's going to post some pictures from the trip and we'll post some more of the house once we get the furniture. Talk to you soon.
The animals are settling in. Mike has been a bad kitty the past couple days. He ran out of the house three times and ran around the yard until we could catch him. We learned from the neighbor kids that there is a really tough neighborhood cat, so no unattended outside for the kitties. I'm getting ahead of myself, but the neighbor kids and the kids from across the street are really nice. We met them and introduced them to the dogs. They really got a kick out of Flash's tricks. Fawkes behaved very nicely, but we didn't let him out of the yard yet as he can become almost a 100 pounds of goofball. We're working on that. The dogs really love the yard. Flash has been sunbathing every chance she gets. Fawkes loves running around.
On Saturday, we drove around. The downtown Edmonds is such a cute little area. There are great stores and a couple cute restaurants. And, best of all, they have a natural pet supplies store that has all the dog and cat food stuff I need. It's a great little store. And the prices are unbeatable!! Well, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration. When they told me the total for my pet food, I said "Oh WOW!!!" The girl ringing me up kinda cringed. I explained that it was a good "Oh WOW" and briefly explained the prices while living in Kodiak. They understood.
We continued driving around and went to Target and Fred Meyer, and NO WALMART!! :-) As that was pretty much the only store to shop at in Kodiak, we won't be doing much shopping there anymore. We checked out a bunch of natural food stores and went to another natural pet supplies store to pick up piggie food.
Then we headed to Whole Foods. We drove around a bit trying to find the store. We finally called and it turns out I wrote the address down wrong. I felt bad, but considering that's the first time I did that all the way from Kodiak, I didn't feel too bad. We got there and were stunned to silence. The selection was unbelievable!! We walked around and I found all kinds of stuff that I would be able to eat. We went through the whole store, but didn't shop yet. We hadn't planned on buying, only looking. We did go back on Sunday though. We finished the evening with dinner at Ivar's Acres of Clams, a seafood restaurant (obviously) downtown. It was very delicious. It was a nice celebration dinner for getting here in one piece and finding a place to live and everything.
On Sunday, we went grocery shopping. We took three hours, going up and down every aisle. Because of my many food allergies, I have to read pretty much every label to see if I can eat the things I'm interested in. We got two full carts of food and spent just under $500. I know that's pretty crazy, but let me explain. I found out about the food allergies while up in Kodiak. I wasn't able to find very much variety of things I could eat that wouldn't cause me reactions. It was very difficult. Plus, prices were so high up there that even when we did find stuff, it cost an arm and a leg. Often we would leave the store wondering how it could cost so much for the little that we got. Yes, we spent $500 at Whole Foods, but we felt like we got our money's worth, as we had two full grocery carts worth of stuff. I was so excited! I was such a dork, but it was so nice to have a variety of things to eat. You don't really understand unless you have been limited with what you can eat and what's available.
After completing our large shopping spree, we realized that we didn't have a pantry. Well, we have one, but the furnace fills it. We went to Target to get a pantry cabinet and another small cabinet for in the kitchen. We looked and looked, but couldn't find the cabinet I had seen. I knew I wasn't crazy, but we couldn't find it. We finally decided on something else and had left and come back to the aisle twice when we both saw the cabinet at the same time, on the bottom shelf towards the back, mostly hidden. We put the other option back and got the cabinet. Paul put them together yesterday.
So, we're here and getting settled. We still have to take an exploratory walk around the neighborhood. It's really cute here though. We're really happy with the area we're in. I almost forgot. The neighbor girl from across the street made us cupcakes to welcome us. It was really sweet. Well, Paul's going to post some pictures from the trip and we'll post some more of the house once we get the furniture. Talk to you soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment