Get outta town!

We have a tentative closing date!  It had been hard to get the paperwork done when Brian was gone.  Now, we need to get homeowner's insurance and pay for next year BEFORE they will set a closing date.  This is odd, as we have to have an insurance coverage start date and we won't know that until there is a closing date!  I guess we will see what we can do.  Apparently, we have to wait a week to set the date after all our insurance stuff and paperwork is complete.  We also have no more information on the oil in the soil (that sounds like the name of a good album).  We hope to close on Friday the 13th.
It has been a big week, with Brian returning on Tuesday night.  He was supposed to be home the night before, after 16 days on the road, but the bad weather in Houston delayed his flight to Dallas for several hours, so he returned to the comfort of his parents' house.  If he had taken the flight late, he would not have made the flight and bus connections to make it home.  He thought things were going smoothly the next day, as he flew from Houston to Dallas on time, but then had no plane to go to Boston!  He arrived in Boston 1.5 hours late, and by some miracle, he from the plane to his luggage and on the bus to NH in 10 minutes!
While Brian dominates college fairs, I had my turn this week.  I went to Saint Anslem in Manchester to represent Maggie's Place at a fair to recruit long-term volunteers.  The campus minister who set it up looked familiar and was talking up Maggie's Place to the students.  She had been there on a Spring Break trip from her college in Boston.  It happened to be the year I was there and I hosted her groups!  How strange.
I enjoyed a break from the unseasonable weather and busy work schedule to go to join my sister in Florida.  It was great - 7 hours at EPCOT and Hollywood Studios to do our favorite rides and the food and wine festival (yummm), followed by 2 days on the beach at Disney's Vero Island resort.  Michelle and I learned archery (with sad equipment) had s'mores on the beach, and got just a bit sunburned.  The Atlantic coast had high rip tides and ocean storms, causing dangerous swells that made for exciting play.  The storms brought up a lot of shells, which hurt our feet!  Luckily the weather has been better this week, making my transition easier.
I finally finished reading the Bourne Identity, which is WAY different from the movie.  I do recommend the book, but be forewarned that it is loosely connected to the movie.   It has been a slow time for entertainment news, so let us know if you have any recommendations.
We had a nice dinner to celebrate Brian's return and ran into the father of a family for whom I nannied.  They are buying a house we liked, only 2 blocks from our new house!  It will be nice to know some of our neighbors.  Halloween was spooky with warm weather and leaves blowing in strong winds.  We attended a low-key party, without any crazy costumes.  I have started seeing H1N1 in my patients and giving the vaccine.  This is early for the flu, so I am not sure what will happen when it peaks.