We're In!!!!

Okay so much happened yesterday. We went to this street fair thing, like some kind of arts & crafts festival that they roped off 6th Street for. There were lots of stalls with different crafts and things like that. There was a petting zoo, with lots of goats, but they also had a baby kangaroo in there that I felt sooo bad for, because it was obviously completely terrified of all these little kids, and it was all alone, and the other goats were mean to it and would try to butt it. It alternated between trying to escape every time someone came in and cowering in the corner. It was pretty cruel to have it in there, I thought.

We had checked out of the hostel so we just had to drive around all day, trying to find things to do and places to be until 12:01 when we could move in. We went to Book People (which is downtown), and then to Barnes & Noble (which is far away) until they closed, and then we drove back into town at 11pm. We drove around downtown for half an hour, and then headed over to our house. There's a keybox on the gate, which is basically like a padlock with a combination that can hold a key, usually they put it on for realtors to use. Since we didn't want to wait until Monday for them to change the locks and give us keys, Andrea called Eric today and he gave us the combination for the box so we could get in. Well, he gave us THE WRONG F-ING COMBINATION. Honestly. So we are standing there in the middle of the night, with the little keychain light thing that Daddy gave me, trying to figure out how to open this box, hoping that we just didn't understand it, trying to give Eric the benefit of the doubt, that he wasn't that retarded. But he is. So we just decided to call a locksmith.

While we were standing around outside waiting for the locksmith to come, one of our neighbors, Will, came home, with his girlfriend Lauren. They're from Beaumont, which I guess is near Houston, they've been dating since they were in highschool (aw). They stood outside for a while talking to us about Austin and New York (Will and Lauren are huge Seinfeld fans and asked if I knew where their diner was). And then when I was starting to feel awkward because we had been keeping them outside for a while, Will invited us inside to wait for the locksmith, because "we're neighbors now." Sooo nice. The inside of their house is all covered in Longhorns (the UT football team) and drinking paraphernalia. There's a shelf that runs along the top of their kitchen cabinets where they arranged all these beer bottles in rows. Oh college. We watched South Park and talked more about what goes on in Austin, apparently Halloween is a huge deal here so I'm pretty excited for that.

Finally the locksmith came, so we said good night and went over with him to the door. The locksmith said he was from New York, although he had an accent so was from somewhere else originally. He was really friendly, in a good way, and we were talking a lot while he was opening the door, and then he mentioned that his name was Levi like, Bronstein or something and he was Israeli. What are the odds of having an Israeli locksmith in Texas. Then we talked about how there were no good bagels in Austin and how they don't have scallion cream cheese, and he said New York was great because there was a big Jewish population there and there were Hebrew newspapers etc, so then Andrea said Yeah, she's Jewish, pointing to me, so he said Oh! Well then you know all about it. And when Andrea asked how he'd learned to pick locks, he said Oh well she can tell you, you know Israelis, we just need to look at something once and we can figure it out. Yes, that's exactly what my family has told me about Israelis. He was really nice, though, and really funny, kind of hyped-up, definitely another Character, and he gave us his phone number in case we ever needed anything. Speaking of phone numbers, Will, our neighbor, also came over with his phone number while the locksmith was there, in case we ever needed "to borrow a cup of sugar." So, now we have a house.