Not much chance to blog lately as we were on the road for the past 7 days or so...a big trip to Austin to do some house hunting. I am VERY happy to say that we found a wonderful little place in Southwest (?) Austin - in Tanglewood Forest. It will probably be a 15-20 minute drive for the UT campus - but the tradeoff was more affordable housing and the kinds of things we were looking for: fenced in yard, convenience to shopping and basic needs, and it doesn't hurt that there are several parks and a neighborhood pool.
Here are some pics!
You wouldn't know it by these pics, but we are actually on a street right by an elementary school. After getting little rain here in Alabama, it was quite refreshing to see the green grass and trees in the new neighborhood.
We will have our own full garage and will share a driveway with the other unit of our duplex.
Nice little walkway to the front door here and we have another entrance to the garage from the walkway. We were happy that unlike some of the duplexes - our laundry room will be in the house rather than in the garage.
This is view from our backyard! It is a wonderful neighborhood park and walking trail.
Here is the new garage!
I didn't want to post too many pics of just empty rooms, but it is a 2BR, 2B and has a great little breakfast nook with a bay window. The last pic is of the neighborhood pool, which is around the corner from us.
We had a great visit to Austin and to Louisiana along the way! More pics of the trip will follow soon :)
Ahhh... a pretty good day is winding down now :) On the VERY LONG list of things to do before we move - we accomplished a big one today: we sold one of our cars - so now we have some money to put aside to take another trip to Austin. We felt good about that - I am always interested in the selling of the cars - who shows up to look at them, the kinds of questions they ask and ultimately who ends up buying them. Today, the car went to a girl in her 20's and it seemed like a really good fit for her. Her car had broken down and she was sharing cars with her relatives just to get back and forth to work. We have loved the little 92' BMW - but it was time for it to leave us - so I think it went to a good home.
On another good note, I have a job interview by phone for a research position at the University of Texas! I am keeping my fingers crossed - it is just part-time, but it would give us some income, and the opportunity to work at UT while Kevin is getting started in school. Good vibes about it so far :)
