A New Beginning

It's the end of the holidays and 2 weeks since my last post. I finished that one with 'What a difference a week makes', well things keep on changing.

The best news of all is that we have finally sold our house. We switched to a local agent, they had one Open Home last Sunday and we had signed an unconditional contract by about 6pm. What that actually means is that the first contract we signed which was conditional on the buyers selling their own house now has its clause come into effect. This gives them 7 working days to go unconditional themselves. So come Thursday we're expecting to find out whether or not we have sold our house to the first buyers which would mean settlement date is the 3rd August or the second buyers which would mean settlement date is the 7th September. Either way IT'S SOLD!!!

Now we just have to find a place to rent inside the school zone that our daughter is wanting to go to next year.

So that's been the major news of the holidays, other than that it has been a case of finishing off school stuff, clearing out my classroom, giving back my PowerBook and iPod (sniff sniff!), trying to find a place to rent, checking with the bank and lawyers that all documentation has been filed, and spending time with the kids.

To that end we went on our 'Mystery Drive' on Friday. Thankfully the weather turned it on for us and it was a beautiful day. We headed inland to Darfield before making our way through the Rakaia Gorge and onto Methven where we enjoyed lunch in the van consisting of hot chippies, muffins and mandarins. The kids enjoyed being so close to the snow-covered mountains and there was even snow lying on the side of road left over from the previous week's dumping. All in all it was a great way to finish off the holidays.

And tomorrow I start my new job. Who knows what exciting adventures that will bring? I gotta say I can't wait to start, I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve. Bring it on!