Well... the relo company came through today. :-)
We spent the day criss-crossing rainy and cold Madrid looking for a house/apartment with Lynn our wonderful and English speaking relo agent. We looked at a few placed and loved 2 of them. We're working on the details and negotiating a bit on one of them. We'll see. It's a GREAT place. All things depend on my work visa from Spain, which can be a bit of a challenge to get in a reasonable amount of time. We did hear good news that it might be more like 6 weeks (rather than 6 months) Pray it's closer to 6 weeks. That means I get to see my family sooner.
In addition to a busy day looking at houses, we spent another 2 hours lunching and touring malls and grocery stores. It's likely getting a little weird for the Spanards to see us searching grocery shelves and then crying "EUREKA" and jumping up and down. :-) The best news is that we found JIF peanut butter. Major score. $10 for 16 oz though. Ouch! (note to self, pack peanut butter in checked bags)
We also found the entire selection of "Old El Paso" products. Apparently, they got the company catalog and ordered it all. Some of it will be good though. Better than no Mexican food/spices, for certain!
We are beat tonight. We found a new way to mess up a jetlagged body... it's called staying up till 2am doing email and such. Our bodies have no clue what time it is. lol...
Tomorrow we see a couple more houses and some other areas. We also might meet up with my new boss and seek to improve French-US relations. We'll let you know how it goes.
much love to you all,
Jason & Becca
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We just have to pray that the visa will come thru even quicker than 6 weeks. Hope you are taking pics to share with us all when you get home! Cannot wait to see the next post and even more excited to see you both (and our Katie too) Saturday.
We love ya'll!
J,B,C,C
Love this blogging thing and find myself checking it often. Guess I think it's all you have to do. House hunting sounds pretty successful and grocery shopping tolerable. We all will be sending peanut butter. Hope you get some good rest and we look forward to seeing you for Christmas. We'll be "visa praying" and think positive -- nothing is impossible with God!! Believe it. Stay safe, we love you --
I am so happy to get these updates. It is good to be kept in the loop. You do realize that you must do this for your entire stay in Spain?!
I miss you, my friend!!!
love ya,
Tracy
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