November 29, 2009/ We got the house of my dreams!!!

Swiss cheese every where
that's what little girls play with here, pink rifles
Little Switzerland of Ohio
Swiss Flags along the street
Swiss Restaurant


Slept in this morning since we had NO appointments and no place we had to be! Yeah, first day of loaving! Left the RV park to cruise the Amish/Swiss towns close by. David read in one of the books available at the RV park store that the Amish were founded on January 1st 1525 by a Swiss man in Zurich who split away from the catholic church. I was wondering why there is all this swiss influence in an Amish area. For some reason I thought that the Amish were from Dutch origination. One never stops learning.
Got to this Swiss/Amish area with cheese factories abundent, a Swiss restaurant which strictly serves Swiss food and antique stores on every corner. But as in Switzerland everything was closed on Sunday. What the heck, am I so americanised that I need to shop on Sunday? You bet I am!
Were somewhat disapointed so turned to drive back with a smal detour to visit our fast becoming favorit store, the Farm and Tractor store who sells everything from Tractors to Carthart clothes to lifestock feed to wood burning stoves to kids toys. Then Oh no, there was a huge antique mall next door so had to check that one out and could have furnished 5 houses with cool stuff in no time. I tell you, every small village with a population of more then a hundert people has at least one antique store. They are as abundent here as Starbucks in San Diego. And oh the stuff they are selling and the prices, it is out of this world. i was holding myself (barely) back thinking that I need first a house before I shop and that I will be back in this State within 5 weeks. Oh my god, this is getting so serious with our move.
So went back to the RV and took a shower. Even Trina got to have a nice hot shower today. Then made dinner and then the phone rang!!!!!!
The seller countered within $5000 of what we wanted to pay. So told Carol to give them our last offer. And they went for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are now the proud owner of the funkiest, coolest, sweetest hobbit house located within 20 min from the swissiest area loaded with antique stores. Oh my friends,I am so absolutly happy. Thank you for sending all that good energy our way.
Oh by the way the weather agine was a balmy 60 degree with cloudless sky. Now for 2 weeks they predicted snow and we haven't gotten it! Funny though, 5 minutes after we got the call that we got the house it started to rain. It seemed like Ohio showed us its best side while we were looking and now when we are commited it will go back to normal. The strange thing is that when we were looking in Oregon this spring it rained and snowed every day I was there. It must be a sign that we belong here that it stayed so nice while we were searching.
We will go tomorrow to Akron, which is about 45 minutes from her to do some banking. We thought we were smart when we moved our account over to Bank of America, thinking that they have offices everywhere. We thought wrong. There are only 6 offices in the whole State of Ohio. Oh the good life in Ohio. But the nice thing is that though we live in the country we are only 15 min away from a small town and 45 minutes from Columbus, 45 min from Canton, about 1 1/2 hour from Cleveland and about 2 hours form Pittsburg.
We have a home inspection done on tuesday and maybe by Tursday head back up to Toledo where we reserved an indoor storage for the motor home and then hop in the car and head back to San Diego to finsh packing, celebrate Christmas with Gabriel, Michelle and her fiance Bilal and the Jebb family.
I'm happy, happy, happy!