The craziness of selling our house finally got to us this weekend and we decided to just vacate the premises and let agents and potential buyers take over – at least that was the optimistic hope! We made Saturday a Portland day! We rode the OHSU tram (which we hadn’t done before), went to IKEA for a meatball lunch (meatballs have no milk!) and then headed to the zoo (along with everyone else in PDX) to close out the day.

At the end of it all we grabbed the dog from our friend’s house (HUGE THANKS to the Haisch’s for taking him whenever someone comes to look at the house) and headed down to Salt Creek for a couple nights at Poppy & Nonna’s house (‘cause, hey, they’re at the beach and the house is just sitting here... begging to be trashed in their absence). Although it’s been a hectic weekend of running all around, it’s been considerably less stressful than being at home and trying to clean up and get out whenever we get a call from our agent. And we have actually had four showings in first three days with #5 scheduled for tomorrow, which is great considering the economy... And considering that the faster it sells the sooner we’ll be able to return to our life.