How We Came to the Enchanted Mansion

The Enchanted Mansion

My wife and I bought our first home after a year of being married, it was small home in a nice little neighborhood.  We liked the house, we liked the neighborhood, we liked the area, and we were happy.  It seemed to be the classic start to the american life.

One thing about my dear wife, is that she loves looking at houses and shopping for houses.  She shops for houses for all of our friends when they are moving, or thinking about moving, or mentioned moving, or looked twice at a house that wasn't theirs.   She seems to have a real estate agent hiding inside her just waiting to bust out.  While looking online at houses for some friends that were thinking about moving to the area, she would see houses that she liked and point them out to me. I would give some sort of obligatory response about how it was indeed a nice house.  From time to time, in order to try to seem more interested, I would find something about the house and comment on it. "Wow, I love that bay window in the kitchen"  And believe it or not, I do actually know what a bay window is.  It isn't that I wasn't interested, it is that I saw no need to look at houses, we had a house that we liked.

 It was during one of these times of looking through houses that I was possessed by some evil creature that made me say crazy things.  My wife showed me this house, we looked through all the pictures and commented on the neat-o things that we saw.  I believe my wife was expecting me to disengage and get sucked back into whatever I was doing at the time, but instead, the evil creature that was possessing me rose up and took control of my mouth.  I looked at my wife and told her we should go look at the house.  She looked at me, in shock, and said that we had a house we loved and had no need to go see another house.  For some reason I convinced her we should go look at this house (it did not take much convincing) and just check it out.  Well, we went to look at the house that weekend, and about 2 months later we were pulling in the driveway with a moving truck.