Inspections All Around!

The past two days have been kind of eventful. Let's start with last night!

Last night Jabin and I had a date night. A month or so ago we had dinner with our friend Kacie and her family she told us she bought us a "house warming" gift. She bought us a gift card for Aqua Vino, a very yummy restaurant on the canal. Our reservation were at 7:30pm. Now the goods, what we ate!

We started with a few drinks, Jabin a vodka tonic and a cosmo for me. Then we had the BEST calamari I think we had both ever had. It's funny here they pronounce it calima, I'm sure I sounded super country when I said calimaREEE! Then on to 2 slightly over dress salads, but they were good. Jabin's entree was Haddock Oreganato with a side of pasta with marinara (pronounced marinod) hehe these people talk so funny! He said it was pretty good. I had a Utica original, Chicken Riggies, which is just chicken pieces mixed into a spicy marinara sauce, rigatoni noodles and it had green pepper too.  Jabin says that Chicken Riggies was what the wait staff would throw together at the end of a long night of serving, putting all the leftovers together over pasta. Each restaurant has a different version of it here. Then of course we couldn't stomach anymore food so we took our white chocolate raspberry cheesecake to go! I'm getting filled up just thinking about how stuffed we were last night!

This is a view of the restaurant from the bridge over the canal 
Under the awning is where you go in to sit and eat. It was too chilly to sit outside or that is where we would have been. (after a proof reading Jabin says it wasn't too chilly I'm just a big weenie)

And for the events of today! We got great news, after the buyers of the house in KC reviewed the inspection report they are not asking us to do ANYTHING to the house! Apparently this is unheard of! Great news for us! We officially have to be completely out of the house by May 30th! It's getting so real! 

Here are a few pictures on our drive to the house

This is the front view, side and back of what we were seeing on the way out there








And of course I can't not put a picture of my handsome husband in this blog!
























On to the inspection we did with our main guy Frank on the house here in NY (we didn't know Frank but after spending 2+hrs with him he seems pretty cool) He is a VERY through inspector and that is probably because he loves his job. Apparently he was a contractor and a few other things, and this is the first job he has enjoyed doing. We did a walk around and I took a few more pictures, 

 this is a few of the front finally, from left to right, there are two smaller rooms, each having one of those windows on the left, then is one of the master bedrooms and then the "real" front door that we will probably never use :)





Below is a picture of the house before it was a house! Good old Shell gas station and convenience store

 Out back and to the left is an old barn that is going be torn down in the next few weeks too. We like the look but it doesn't seem such a good idea for little ones one day. 

 while the boys were down in the seller doing more of the inception I decided to take a picture of all the pretty flowers! These right next to the driveway in the front, again we love the landscaping!

On to the nitty gritty of the inspection, there were a few minor things like 2 plugs not being grounded in the kitchen, a fixture cover here, no railing there. And then a few things we will need to address soon. The roof over the old what us to be the garage needs a little repair on the roof, in the seller a support beam is bowing so it will need a jack or two and then the house has NO gutters, who has a house without gutters?!?! (we might apparently ;-) ) We are asking the sellers to put in the support jacks and fix the roof and they have agreed to both. Putting gutters on a house is not a "inspection" type of thing I guess so we will be in charge of those, oh YAY! All in all this whole inspection thing has been pretty smooth! 

After the inspection we went to see a movie, a movie I have been wanting to see since I saw the first trailer!



It was great!!! So was the popcorn! Jabin says popcorn is 1 of my major food groups. Now we are sitting in the hotel while Jabin watches "The Day After Tomorrow" and I write this. Of course he will proof read, lucky for you guys! 

Until next time.....