Well, today starts a new adventure!  We got up early and left Oscarson’s (and Illinois as residents for the last time) and drove out to Castle Rock!  As I’ve said before, was hard to leave, but I know we’ll love it out in CO!  The 16 hour drive went pretty fast and before we knew it, we were there!  Wahoo!!!  The Liddell family is out of town and so they said we could stay in their home until we closed and all our stuff arrived.  They’re great!

Our house in IL closed today but we got held against the flame for a bit!  The family that bought our house did the final walk-though and came back and said that we put in the wrong water heater size and that they wanted us to pull it out and buy a new bigger one.  They also said that they decided that they didn’t want the entertainment center I built in the basement (after they never said anything on the contract) and wanted us to pay to pull it out.  They also said that the smoke detector in the basement that was working the day before didn’t work anymore and wanted us to replace that.  Needless to say, our agent was livid and we were stuck because we were driving in the middle of Nebraska and we close tomorrow!  After going back and forth and thinking we might not be able to close, we just gave them $500 to cover what they needed and were done with it.  What stupidity!  Everything was fine and they tried to shaft us and be unethical at the closing.  🙁  Oh well, we closed and the proceeds hit the title company this afternoon so we are good to close tomorrow!  🙂  Yea!

I can’t believe we’re here!  It’s really beautiful and it’s great to be in (or near) the mountains again!