Chester House Hunting

Scott and i had the chance to fly to St. Louis and then drive to Chester last weekend. The idea for the trip was to house hunt. Scott went in June on his own and saw quite a few houses. He narrowed it down to around three or four for the trip we would make together. Steve Hayes, the CEO of the Chester Hospital picked us up in our rental car. We then drove about 45 min to the town of Red Bud. Scott will also be working in this town but we are choosing to live in Chester. We met Connie, Steve's wife, for dinner at this amazing little Italian restaurant. The food was so good. The restaurant is in the downtown area and occupies an old opera house. It is the neatest little place and I know we will be frequenting it often. After dinner we drove to Chester and checked into the hotel. Saturday we slept in:). After a leisure filled morning we went to see Dr. Carr's house. As soon as we walked in I knew this was the house for us. It was absolutely beautiful and homey. I can really see us raising the kids there. Four bedrooms plus a guest suite upstairs, four full baths, two kitchens, three car garage, a shed in the basement (I say shed but really mean an enormous extra garage that can fit three cars end to end) and room to add on. I could go on and on but I won't. We really love this house and can't wait to move in. After spending a couple hours at the Carr's we met up with the realtor to see some houses. I made the appointment a while ago so I felt obligated to see the other houses even though I knew that I wanted the Carr's house. We saw two others that didn't even come close. I am already decorating the house in my mind:) The rest of the weekend was fun. We went to a BBQ at a friends house and went golfing on Sunday morning. Before we left town we stopped at the St.Louis Arch and went through the museum and saw the movie on how it was built. We didn't have time to go up in it. Some other day. I was very excited to get home to my kids. I missed them very much while we were gone.