My coworker is leaving next Tuesday to go to Hawaii for two weeks. I wish I could go to Hawaii, but I would rather save that money to buy a house. Jay and I had a meeting with a real estate agent yesterday just to ask him some questions about buying houses and building houses and stuff. We got some pleasant news that our condo is worth probably $20,000 more than what we estimated, so that is good news! It was encouraging all around and we are perhaps looking at getting more serious about looking into things by early next year. How exciting!!