Baseball, BBQ and all the goodness

We have been back in the USA for 5 days now and we have done quite a bit!

After visiting with the folks for two days we picked up Peter and the following day had a really good BBQ here at the house. We had good fun taking Kasey and Peter around to all the big commercial spots like Walmart, Sams Club etc. The price of beer and booze here still even amazes me! So we had a good long BBQ and got to meet up with the locals here in YC :)

Yesterday we went to Old Sacramento, hit up an Irish Pub (as you do ;p) and from there went to the train and war museums which is quite fun. Those trains are huge! After the trek around Old Sac we went to a River Cats Baseball game. It was great fun, it has been a long long time since going to a baseball game and even though the Rivercats lost it was still a ton of fun.

Today we are making our way to Chico to visit Sierra Nevada and do the whole brewery tour. From there we will just hang out till its bar time! :D

DOH!

Unfortunately the price and discussion with the agent was only about the LAND for the area, the house costs extra.

Well... I guess next time we want a home and land package we will have to be explicit in that the price contains a house as well ;-)

That is to say, we were very happy to pay the land price when we thought there was a house on it hehe wonder if we can get a shack built for 30k!

Home home everywhere!

Well everything is coming together quickly!

The trip to the USA is only a four days away and we have a lot of things coming together quite quickly.

We are going to meet with an agent about this land and home package (what they call it here for a new house), out in a really forest-y area, it is two blocks from a train station and is close to a major road! So that lands all of our requirements and its a new home! We won't have to worry about building, pests etc inspections since it will all be under contract. So, yes, everything is happening this Saturday. If we are happy with the property we are gonna give the big thumbs up to the agent and then start hammering away on the loan guys to it all finalized. Of course this is all happening the day before we leave for the USA, so I imagine I am gonna be still doing it while on holidays ;P

Ahh and the block is a massive 836 SQ Yards (or 1000 sq meters) which is f***-tastic because of how close it is to the CBD. It also means in the future we can split the lot and build to houses then sell them as individual lots or build a small block of flats on them and sell them off individually for a good amount of bling bling.

And of course we have the trip to the USA which Kasey and I are looking forward to a great deal! It will be just over two and half years (I think..) since I have been home so it will be good to see everyone and visit :)

Nothing else really to report, I am doing ITIL training all this week which is a bit of a pain but will look good on the ole CV (Resume for US folks).

See a lot of you soon!

Belgium Beer Gooooood

Kasey has finished her thesis (YAAAA!!!) and to celebrate we went out to the Belgium Beer Garden which has a very swanky restaurant attached to it and very nice beers.

We has to get the most expensive beer of course since it was a big celebration so we got this beer here :)



Very nice stuff. Recommended it highly!