April Fools! - We're Homeowners Again!

April Fools Day and we are officially homeowners again. The closing was smooth and we moved into our new, fully furnished home. We literally moved in all of our stuff in a few hours and began to explore and enjoy our new home. Buying a furnished home was pretty strange. I don’t think that Terry and Gigi ever really lived in the house. The furnishings had no wear- the candles were still in their original wrappers and the artificial plant arrangements still had the inventory tags on them.

Mija gave us a bit of a scare with a recurrence of her mast cell tumor- this time on her leg. After doing tests to see if it had spread (it hadn’t), we opted for surgery to remove the tumor. It made for some stressful times and almost daily trips to the vet to check and change bandages.
Meanwhile, we continued our crazed lifestyle finding new projects to make the house ‘perfect’. We had contractors in for structured wiring and to built bookcases for the dining room and to add a door to the laundry room (to make it my office).

Mom and ED came on the 11th to spend the weekend. We had the chance to show them around the area, check out the neighborhood yard sale and take ED out for his 85th birthday.
We had a great anniversary dinner at a local Indian restaurant. Kate and Mike flew in for John’s birthday (and Jane’s graduation). We did an AM swamp boat tour and saw the Kennedy Space Center (with an obnoxious tour guide – “Yea”) and a great dinner in Cocoa.

With our house projects completed or at least under control, we were ready to pack up and get out of Florida. The heat and humidity were starting to kick in and it was definitely time to head north.