It's Just One Of Those Days...

I wanna start by saying that there are days like the one we had today everywhere you live. We all have "bad" days. So by no means am I complaining about the day we had today or saying that we did not expect there to be days like the one we had today. As a wise man once said..."Momma said there'd be days like this!" What I am trying to accomplish with this post is to simply let our friends and family and prayer warriors know how things can go sometimes. We are good, we by no means feel conquered or defeated, it was just one of those days! (Remember this song by Daniel Powter? I could never decide if I liked it or if it was just catchy.)

Anyways...today our plan was simple: look at apartments. We were hoping to look at 3 or 4 and then maybe walk around and see if we saw any others for rent that we had not seen online. We ended up seeing 1 and we didn't see it until close to 5pm. We went to the first place to get the key to a apartment we liked online and things seemed swell. It was available, we got the key and we headed to the complex. However, when we got there the guy at the gate said that we had the wrong key and sure enough he was correct. So we drove the 25ish minutes back to get the correct key only for them to tell us that they did not have the key and that another office (further away) did. So we decided to look a couple other apartments closer to where we were first. However, that didn't work for a myriad of reasons.

Our next decision was to go and get the correct key to the first apartment we wanted to look at. We called and it seemed promising, however, when we got there they had just given the key out to someone else. The key wouldn't be back for close to 2 hours, so that was out for the day. The next thing we did was to call on a different one (this was the first time we were able to talk to someone on the phone about this one). They said to come on by and get the key. We headed there, found a parking place (finally), started walking there and called again as we were walking there to confirm. However, they also had just given the key out to someone else and would not be back in time. So that also was out for the day.

Next, we walked to another office to get another key, got the key and we thought that we would finally see an apartment. It was probably close to 4 at this point. We drove to the area where this complex was, parked, walked to the apartment and they said they needed a paper from the realtor saying we were there to see the apartment. This was after we asked the realtor three times if we needed a paper and they assured us that we would not. They even said that there was no need to worry. We called the company and they sent "a thousand sorry's our way (their words in Portuguese of course)." We appreciated that, but it didn't do us much good at the time. But they said if we came back, they would have a paper. So we went back to their office, got the paper and we finally saw an apartment at close to 5pm!

However, we did have Domino's Pizza for dinner (it's buy one get one free on Tuesdays here). I was able to play basketball tonight and if you know me at all, you know how exciting that was for me. I met some new friends at basketball. And we were able to meet a lot of new people as we ran from office to office to office today! Better luck tomorrow! Thanks for everything guys! Love you all!

-Kelly and Kelci