So, our big news is that we're moving to San Jose, CA. I was offered a job at the Children's Discover Museum of San Jose. It's a wonderful museum and the staff are terrific. Our challenge now is to figure out how to make the whole move happen quickly. My start date is February 9th. Ack!!Arch and traveled out to San Jose over the weekend of Jan 18th to check out town and scout for neighborhoods, schools, transportation, etc. Thanks to the advice of a number of friends who either live or have lived in San Jose we were able to narrow down our options a tiny bit. We enjoyed all the places we visited but Willow Glen felt most livable to us and is fairly close to the museum.
We had the chance to visit a couple of potential apartments and decided to take a short term lease at Hidden Willows. (See the picture above.) It is a very quite green complex and has amenities that seem quite luxurious to us NYC cramped apartment dwellers (dishwasher, pool, health club, washing machines very nearby.) Still we hope stay for a short time since we'd like to purchase a home of our own as soon as we're able to.
Our planned move will take place during Nye's school vacation week 2/16-20. We're busy getting all our ducks in a row. There are fun little surprises that keep popping up like the San Jose school's TB test requirements, needing cat vaccination records to take them on the plane. We haven't even begun to figure out how we'll move Nicodemus, Nye's new snake. (Yep, snakes on a plane or maybe not.)
All in all its a big crazy adventure but we're still excited. Ask me how I feel in few more weeks and the answer might be quite different!
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The blog's a great idea and I've enjoyed what I've read. The Hidden Hollows looks like a nice place (at least from the picture). But the coolest thing I learned was about Nicodemus. I hope you can take Nicodemus on the plane after all. I like the name SNAPPress too. Good luck with the move. Have fun with it! We'll visit as soon as we can. - MKLS
ReplyDeleteSara, congrats again on the new job and good luck tomorrow! We're all rooting for you. Good luck with the move too.
ReplyDeleteMoving to San Jose may have been great for you - but you may never know how much we all are going to love the idea of visiting you now! Not that there was anything wrong with NY, it is just that CA is one of my favorite places to visit. CT wishes you the best of luck starting your new job tomorrow. We are all thinking about you and missing you already.
ReplyDeleteChris, Laurie & Julie:
ReplyDeleteSara, Archy, Nye--Thanks for sharing! Agree the blog is a great idea! Want you to know that we are thinking of you and wishing you the best! If there is anything we can do to help--please just ask. Great pics BTW Nicodemus on the plane? Someone should make a movie...hmmmm Hidden Willows sounds nice--looks nice too. Hey are those Wayfarers?
Love you! CLJD