Been a Few...

So it's been a few days, we got back from Alabama on Friday evening.  It wasn't too bad.  We flew American to DFW on Wednesday, then to Huntsville.  On our way home we flew to Chicago then landed in Seattle.  I preferred the flight to DFW but the flight from Chicago did have a movie.  I didn't mind though, we flew free!  The other airlines that fly to Huntsville are AirTran, Delta, Alaska (through American) and United I think?  

Well, Ryan took the position.  The position was amazing, Ryan loved it.  His boss even picked him up at our hotel.  Stephenie was given a tour of the city by a local realtor, Wanda McLemore who even took her to lunch at the Main Street Cafe in Madison.  For the record, this is the best place ever... although, Rosie's Cantina was really darn good.  The margarita's were incredibly good.  Pretty much everyone we met raved about it.

Anyways, Ryan starts on April 26th, 2010 which means we are moving out of here fast!  We really couldn't resist the position, he's getting so much more than what he has at LSI the past two years.  He'll do work on the Kiowa Warrior's again, which he spent six years in the US ARMY working on.  Although rather than jeans & tee's he'll be wearing khaki's & button up's!  WooHoo.  No more grease on my carpet and finding helicopter parts in the laundry!  He's also salaried at 40 hours a week, has access to a gym at work & cafeteria (no more fast food!).  He also gets:

- 10 sick leave days upon hire

- 10 paid holidays

- Tuition Reimbursement (most employees there have their PHD, paid for by the company!)

- Paid Relocation (including breaking our apartment lease, moving our second car, and packing up our items for freight moving!)

- Salary Position

- Minimum 7 years permanent position; if job goes under, the company replaces you somewhere else in the company rather than just axing you

- Company is a Fortune 500

- & more!

This is also the same company that flew us down to Alabama for the position, even after mentioning that they generally do not fly spouses!  We had our airfare, rental car & hotel paid for!  We have the moving truck coming on April 12 and we are departing WA either the 17 or 18th, rather than our originally planned 19th departure.  We will be back in WA for Byron & Kate's August 14th wedding.  Hopefully we will be back for Mexico in December as well!  Of course... we welcome visitors =]

We also got a quaint 2bed 2ba apartment w/1 attached garage.  We're feet away from the fenced in dog park, a man made lake and the clubhouse with pool, bbq grill, laundry room & gym.  It's really common to have to buy your own w/d down there.  I'm curious if its because A/C is standard in the apartments or it just keeps the cost of living cheaper.  No biggie, we'll just use the laundry room once a week for a few weeks, it'll keep our house expenses down as well and allows us to buy a really nice washer & dryer later on.