we are here....

quick post but i will add pictures later... we arrived in ohio on thursday. it was a LONG TRIP out here. i thought leaving was the hardest part but when we arrived- that was HARD! i felt like i was in a different country~ our first five minutes here were lost in the ghettos! serious eye-opener! we looked and looked for a place to live and were SHOCKED at what was on the market. these houses were built in the 1920's and have SO MUCH potential but landlords/tenants don't take the time to take care of anything. what we saw was unreal.....dirt, holes, problems... just place a fresh coat of paint over anything, good as new.... apparently that is what they think! when a house is almost 100 years old you can just paint over problems. we actually did find a place on friday night and started moving in on saturday. now we are buried in boxes but at least they are out of the moving van and we were able to return it on time and avoid paying another $700! we were pretty excited about that! i will post pictures and more later!