Thursday, December 16, 2010

Decisions, Decisions.....

It is still rainy here, off and on.  We are actually enjoying it because it keeps it a bit cooler at night :)


Mine and Jenni's RaInY DaY pictures


Jenni and I have been on the hunt for a new place to live for the last week or so.  We were forewarned that James was looking for a more permanent housemate and now he's found one.  We are searching through Gumtree.com which is a website that is more backpacker/short term renter friendly.  We lined up two houses for viewing today.

This afternoon we visited the first house at 1A Bennett St.  A nice looking Irishman, Dave, age 30, owns the house and is renting out his extra bedroom.  He is an Electrical Engineer for the tram system and has lived here for 8 years.   He has a very clean, modern, and spacious house only a 15 minute walk from work.  The room we would be living in has HEAPS of closet space and a big comfy bed!  This is a good thing since, even though we are backpacking, we manage to fill an entire closet and set of drawers.....thanks to Lauren's good packing skills ;)  He was very welcoming and we assume he would be a good time since he IS Irish!  

This evening Jenni checked out the second house at 18 Mary Street.  I had to work at 4 p.m. today so it was all up to J-Pow to give it a look.  She says it was a very nice, newly renovated house, where we would live with 2 other girls, age upper 20's.  It is only a 3 minute walk to work (good, but not good for the bum!)  The room we would live in has nice wooden floors, BUT only 2 twin frameless mattress could be supplied. 

We have a decision to make because both have offered us the rooms.  It's time for us to list our pros and cons and hopefully choose the right one.  We will make a decision by tomorrow and move into our new place on Sunday :)

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