We have a house!

Alyson:
Our new home in Grahamstown is on a busy street near the most popular hangout.  You know that I like to hang out at the bar, this should be no surprise to anyone that knows me even the slightest bit.  Anyway, we are renting a place that would seem impossible in NJ, even in other states I bet.   The price is considered high by Grahamstown standards, but coming from NJ it is dirt cheap.   We are living in a historical place on most happening street, near the grocery store and laundromat.  It is very secure (are you listening, mom?), with two bedrooms and a yard.  The yard even has an apple tree like my home in Flanders, except I bet these apples are edible.  [This fact to be confirmed. -Will] We will have to test for apple pie recipes.   Also, there are two fig trees in the yard.  Many culinary opportunities await us. 

Will:
Alyson has tagged me in to finish this post.  We are super excited.  I, in particular, am pretty much over the moon about pretty much everything.  More on that later - the details are flying at me too fast to process right now.  But hey, apparently this is a really small town, so anything I'd say here is bound to come up again umpteen times in the next few months alone.  So, rather than drop all the spoilers now like a just-recently-tripped waitress, I will stretch the more intriguing bits out, like some sort of fisherman-guy analogy.  Or something.

Plan for our first Friday night: TBD, but the locals suggested boiling potatoes.
Plan for Saturday: Buy furniture. 
(...Real furniture, made of wood and glass and metal instead of particle board and whatever "beech effect" is, called things like "chair" and "bookshelf" instead of "Billy" and "Ȩkto̦rp̈".  How exotic!)

P.S. This is the building where my new office is.  It is pretty sweet.  More on that to come.  Stay tuned and stuff.