July 9 - 11th: House hunting take TWO
Im just gonna say right now, there are barely any pictures for this trip. I did bring my camera though so we have a few so sit back and relax and get ready to read. A LOT.
And you will soon realize this trip was not worth our time or money because of reasons
Lets get on with the show!
So we got up bright and early on July 9th. Mum got woken up by Meeko at 2:30 and I woke up at 4. We got ready and then headed to Logan since, um, we were flying out from there.
We parked in the economy lot since we have no money.
We found a spot on the 3rd level and then took the elevator to get to the shuttle. And a little doggie was on the shuttle. He was so cute!
So we got to Terminal E soon after getting on the shuttle. Now, we were taking Air Tran but we booked our flight on Southwest since Southwest owns Air Tran. So we already had our boarding tickets and we just needed to check our bags so we got in the express line, which took like a half hour but we had time. One dude didnt though because he got there like 5 minutes before his flight took off
.. I dont understand people sometimes. At all.
So after waiting for 30 minutes, we got to the counter and you were supposed to scan your tickets and just hand your bags to the ONLY WOMAN working the joint. And low and behold, our tickets wouldnt scan. So she asked us if we were taking Southwest and we answered no, Air Tran.
Well this line is only for Southwest.
Really? CAUSE ALL OF THE STUPID SCREENS SAY AIR TRAN AND SOUTHWEST.
So she was like Well I guess I can help you now but you are in the wrong line.
Idiot.
And there were many idiots in the airport that morning. We had some wonderful people in line with us. So we had Idiot #2 (Idiot #1 was the guy who missed his flight). She left her bag unattendedwe shouldve called 911first. And then she was like Oh this is ridiculous! so she got in the non-express line and then that wasnt any faster I guess so she cut in line and said oh I just left for a second and this is my spot! Yeah. I dont think so. THEN (it gets better), this guy was saying there was a line outside you could go into and she was like WHAT DID YOU SAY?! So these cute little British people behind her told her two times what he said so she got out of line AGAIN. Thank GOD that was the end of Idiot #2. The British people were like She was so rude!
Anyways
We went through security and then got our usual breakfast at Dunkins.
Then we got lunch at some store because we had a stop but we wouldnt be getting off the plane so we needed some food. So I got chips and Oreos. I am healthy.
We used the bathroom before we were going to board (important info).
We boarded and got seated next to the girl who was in a pageant. It wasnt like Toddlers & Tiaras: Airplane Style. She didnt have any pageant crack on her. I think she was like a junior in high school.
I didnt know what we were in for for this flight. We saw her at our gate and she had six inch heels on, a tiara, and a sash. I just rolled my eyes but she was really nice and so was the rest of her family. And Mum seemed very interested in the whole pageant thing. And I was just sitting there like Youve got to be kidding moi right now. I was kind of jealous to be honest because her pageant was being held at the Swan and the Fish. I wanted to go! But not participate in the pageant and just chill at the Epcot resorts because of reasons.
So we had a pretty chill flight. We landed in Ohio at about 11 and stayed on the plane. We took off at about 11:40 again.
I watched The Boys which is a documentary on the Sherman Brothers which caused a lot of feels. And I watched the Aristocats and died over the cuteness of Marie.
We landed at MCO at 1:40 which was 20 minutes early so BOO YA!
The feels tho.
We headed down to Baggage Claim and our bags were already there so we grabbed them and then headed down to Budget to get our rental car. THANK THE WONDERFUL LORD UP ABOVE that the rental car line wasnt five miles long. It only took about 15 minutes this time around!
We headed across the street and found our rental car right away. SO EASY THIS TIME.
We left MCO and headed to our first house showing right away. This was serious dudes!
At about 3:30, our realtor got there and we hadnt met her yet because when we went down the first time, she was on vacation so we went with her boss to see the first set of places. And our realtors name is Stacy so she was cool.
We saw three places in this apartment complex. They were ok. One though
omg. It looked like a cat threw up all over the floor and no one every cleaned it. It was a foreclosure anyways, so theres that
Next up
I wrote in my journal We went to God knows where because I cant remember. Seriously, all of these places are a blur to moi because we saw SO many this day.
Next we saw two places in the same complex. A 2 and a 3 bedroom. The 2 bedroom was SO small. It was extremely nice but there just wasnt enough room. The 3 bedroom had much more room but we would need to get all new flooring because it was ripped out so that would be a tad bit expensive.
Then we saw two in another town that I was really looking forward to see because I was in love with the school. The first one
That was a big no. It had a lot of problems with it. The second one though
We just loved it. It was in a great area, the whole place had been redone, it was on an old golf course that wasnt being used anymore
It was just perfect. AND THE SCHOOL. We REALLY liked this one and it was our top choice. We were really excited!
We headed to the next place and it had a villa feel to it. It was just too small.
So we were headed to the last place and Stacy got out of her car and told us she just got a call from Megan (her boss).
So you know how we originally put an offer on one and then we got outbid by a verbal offer?
Yeah. The verbal offer fell through.
We didnt know what to do at that point. We still had one to see (that was not in the running at all) and we just loved another one but also loved the original condo
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It was just ridiculous.
So we went to see the last place and it was ok. The area wasnt fantastic though. We were supposed to see another one there but we couldnt get in.
Mum asked Stacy about seeing the original place once again so we could compare the two we liked.
We said goodbye and then headed to our hotel.
We were staying at an Extended Stay since it was the cheapest.
We checked in and everything and made our way down to our room. And it just smelled like someone had been smoking a pack of cigarettes. Our room smelled kinda like that too because we got a smoking room when we asked for a non-smoking room. We were only gonna be here for two nights so it wasnt a huge deal.
So here is our wonderful room that I know yall wanted to see.
Great, I know.
We were hungry so we got in the car and looked what was around. We decided on Cracker Barrel and had a wonderful meal there. I mean, it has to be wonderful when you have the Coke chocolate cake. That stuff is GOOD so I was happy.
After we ate, Mum forced moi to go to the Christmas Tree Shoppe. No offense to anyone, but I hate that store with a burning passion. I have never liked it and never will. Its great that there is one like 5 minutes from where we will be living
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We headed back to our hotel and I wrote in my journal for a while and went online.
July 10th
We woke up at about 8:30 and I took my sweet time to get ready. Its not like we needed to get going, so yeah.
Since we were doing like nothing, I wanted to go to Theme Park Connection. If you dont know what Theme Park Connection is, you need to go and find help because THAT STORE IS AMAZING.
So we left at about 10 and we got so lost. Our GPS was being awful so I was using Mums phone and I heard some choice words come out of Mums mouth that will not appear in this TR.
Since we didnt know where the crap to go, we kind of figured it out from the help of Mums phone.
Except we ended up driving on the wrong side of the road but thats another story for another time
And have I mentioned that we never had breakfast? So that resulted in some crankiness but anyways
We finally got to Theme Park Connection and it is in a very weird location. I dont really know how to explain it so
just go for yourselves and thank moi.
We went in and I was hit with so much awesomeness that I almost fell and couldnt get up.
Attractions Magazine was filming their weekly episode there so we had to be very quiet which was hard for moi to do, cause lets be real now.
So we looked around for a quite a while. I was in heaven.
I was just sad they didnt have any CM name tags because they went to the Disneyana Convention in CA, but we well be back of course!
We ended up talking to the girl that worked there and she used to be a pastry chef at MK. How cool, dudes!
So I ended up getting some things. DUH.
Here are some pics.
After I bought my stuff, we headed to Chick Fil A cause we were hungry and I needed chicken, like always.
I got my usual. Nuggets, fries, and a shake.
If yall havent been to Chick Fil A, they come over and give you refills, take your trash away and all of that fun stuff. So one of the employees takes the trash from the woman behind us and after he leaves, she goes Oh, what a great Christian man! to her kids in her thick southern accent. I was like oh my god
After lunch, we went to go see the high school that I thought Id be going to. More on that soon
We went to Target next and looked around and got a drink at Starsucks.
Then we went to the mall in the town we will be living in and we looked around in several stores.
I tried several things on in Forever 21, including a dress. I REALLY liked it but Mum said it didnt look great on moi. Im fine with her opinion cause um shes my mother and she didnt like the dress but this random woman chimes in and kept telling moi the dress looked bad on me and kept telling me I shouldnt get it. And she was pretty rude about it. I guess not everyone in FL is nice
I ended up just buying a pair of shorts there and then we moved on.
We went to Hallmark to check out all of the ornaments. There are so many I want!!
We also went into Hot Topic and Build a Bear because of reasons.
We left the mall at 4:45 and we were going to go to Publix and walk around or something but Stacy said she was going to be at the place we loved that we saw yesterday early so we just drove over there.
Stacy had her two kids with her and they were really cute. One was doing an ocean/sea life camp and he was going to Sea World the next day for a field trip, which didnt seem like a big deal to him but to us it was like WOW thats so cool! I mean, to us that is a vacation and all, but to them, they are locals and its no big deal. Its very interesting
So we checked out this place once again and then headed to the original place that we loved.
After some thought, we decided to go with the new condo and put an offer in.
We said bye to Stacy and then went to this place called Mimis Café and it was really good! We enjoyed it and were so full afterwards. We were talking to the General Manager at the end of our meal and he lived near the new place and he said it was like a retirement community, meaning it was so quiet, which is fine for us!
Before going back to the hotel, we went to Home Depot and looked around.
Then we headed back and packed for a few and headed to bed.
July 11th
Mum got up at 3:15. We had an early flight out of MCO at 7am. Its awful, really.
After we got ready, we headed to the front desk to check out but no one was there so we just dropped our keys off and left. Whatevs.
Getting to MCO was really easy. We just stayed on this one road the whole time and we just arrived there. Ok then
We dropped the car off and then checked our bags. The line was nice and short, thank God.
We got some donuts at Krispy Kreme before heading to security.
And I was very sad to see that the Earport was closed.
If this isnt creepy, I dont know what is.
We headed to security and oh my GOD the line was like 10 miles long. It was ridiculous.
So we got up the podium and the guy asked me How old are you? And I answered Good, you?
I blame that on it being 6am and all
Going through security was a breeze, THANK THE LORD UP ABOVE.
Except for the idiot that was trying to bring on a giant bottle of lotion
We were on side A which felt really weird (we were taking Jet Blue) since we are ALWAYS on side B.
We got some breakfast which consisted of overpriced crappy grapes. It was wonderful.
Boarding started soon after and they let the back rows on first, which is a smart thing to do.
It was great because we had SO much leg room and having the TVs was awesome. It helped past the time.
And they let you pick your snack so I got cookies and mum got animal crackers. Youre welcome for that info
But Mum ordered a tea and never got it. That was great cause then she was a tad bit cranky
We got to Boston at about 9:45, got our bags, and then found our car.