Cars and houses...

Today we went looking for cars and houses again! That’s all we seem to do in our spare time.  We went to an open home this morning view open home

It was a lovely setting with a lake and lots of land but the house needed quite a bit of care – mostly cosmetic but we weren’t sure.

This afternoon we went out with an agent that we’d been out with the first week – he had three new properties to show us. The most interesting was this one - view house 2

It also had a lake and had some amazing rooms inside. It was mostly made of huge timbers with some really interesting spaces.

We then went to re-view the one we’d liked most the first time view house 3   We still really liked it and it’s our favourite so far.

At 5pm we went to look at a car we’d found on TradeMe (similar to eBay). It was a 1998 Subaru Legacy. After our failure to buy a car in Auckland we decided it might be worth buying a cheap run-around until we know what we really want.

The Legacy was $4500. It seemed OK but we’re both a bit sceptical of buying privately when we don’t really know anything about cars or the area! So, we still haven’t bought anything!

There is a very cheap ($1400) car in a garage near where we live which we are going to look at in the morning. We might just buy that if it’s not awful – just to have something when the rental car goes back on Tuesday.

So, another unsuccessful day of car and house hunting! On the way home we took these photos of the sweet goats that live in the field at the end of our road J