Pasqual's wicker mueble

I'm jumping on this blogging boat.. well doing cartwheels onto it actually. I'm a little delirious right now because it is Day 4 in Spain and today is the first day that we did not need to wake up early and scope out the city for an apartment. We started our search shortly after we got here and checked into our hotel on Thursday morning. When I say we I mean Erin, Nick, Stephanie and me. We were lucky enough to have Nick's mom help us out as well as Steph's dad. Nick's mom had a few appointments set up with a realtor. The first few places we saw weren't really what we were looking for. Some were too expensive around 1,800 Euros a month while we were looking for something around 1,500. One place we looked at smelled like smoke probably because the landlord was telling us how great the place was with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Other places were dirty or only had 3 rooms. Honestly we were getting pretty discouraged because we didn't find a single place the first day that we could have lived in. The second day did more searching on our own by walking around and getting numbers from "Se Alquila" (for rent) signs in windows. We also had a few print outs from websites so we were calling numbers and setting up appointments on the phone with the landlords ourselves. Which brought us to Pasqual. Pasqual had an awesome apartment it was actually clean and modern inside and in a pretty good location the only problem was that the fourth bedroom was more like a hamster cage without the wheel than it was a live-able bedroom. We were really torn up about what to do because we really liked the place but we would have to figure out an arrangement of switching rooms or paying less rent because of the small small room. Well then little ol' Pasqual called us about an hour later to tell us that his parents had already rented out the apartment. So that fixed that dilemma. We were once again out of any hope of finding a place we really liked. The next place we saw we were pretty serious about getting; it was a little dirty and I don't think I'd be comfortable peeing in that baño. We spent the rest of the afternoon calling people and set up 3 appointments. We got to the first appointment and met Chello and Jose. They were extremely nice and very excited to show us the place. Long story short the apartment was perfect: 4 good sized rooms, very clean, and non-smoking good mannered landlords. Their daughter is actually the owner but she ended up being just as great. We signed the precontrato yesterday and will hopefully be moving in and signing the final contract tomorrow! We can't wait to be in our own place and not cooped up in this little little hotel room quoting youtube. Pictures to come :)