Friday, August 21, 2009

Appearances may be deceiving

Well so far I am totally impressed with the way they took photos to make this place look huge. I mean, the photographer? Should be a professional real estate photographer. Made this place look like a mansion. And it is not quite how I imagined what with the back yard with 2 foot tall grass and down a set of stairs instead of something the kids could just run out to.

Also, the lack of air conditioning? Apparently is a problem. The heat is stifling in the house around 6 pm. What happens around 6 pm you might ask? Um, bedtime for triplets. So open a window you say? Um, apparently River Road, a most unassuming road winding through several small towns and villages between Santa Rosa and the coast is the busiest highway this side of the Mississippi. Especially at bedtime.

Yay. But, thanks to an eventful day full of shots (2, and not as painful because I insisted on some topical anesthetic I'd read about so they were much happier), a great pediatrician check up, visiting grandma's house for 3 seconds, a nap, and then 3 more seconds, and then arriving at a strange place full of sharp brick corners and kitchens with easily reachable household chemicals, we were exhausted. All of us.

They are asleep and I head that way too. We are not miserable, but things are not quite the rosy picture painted in the Russian River Rentals e-brochure. Oh no they are not. Because the housekeeper? Apparently doesn't do floors.

3 comments:

  1. Oh, no. Are you going to have to clean the floors on your VACATION?? Your label cracked me up again: "this vacation may suck". I hope not, but I'm sure looking forward to hearing about it if it does :)

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  2. I hope that your vacation turn out to be good. Have a good time or at least try to!

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  3. doesn't sound too fun yet! you would think the rental company would have standards about what is acceptable to have available and this doesn't sound acceptable at all

    sounds like great news from the pediatrician! I hope it took away some of your worries about the kids' talking

    betty

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