Mansions

It's my first post.  Congratulations to me for finally giving in to Jake.  Or maybe it should be congratulations to Jake for finally sucking me in to the blogging world.

On Friday I had dinner at my choir director's mansion.  There were 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, a billiard room, and a theatre in the basement alone!  He and his wife have been buying homes, fixing them up, and then selling them for a while.  When a few of us arrived at his place, he told us that he and his wife had recently settled with someone on the house.  Apparently the horrific housing market got to him, because he mentioned that he lost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars on the house.  Hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollars.  My gosh.  I can't imagine even having the kind of money necessary to buy that house.  Jake has often asked questions about what we would do if we won the lottery (to which I usually remind him that we have to buy a ticket first), and I always reply that I would pay off our student loans.  After that, I'd have absolutely no idea, but I do know that there is no way that we'd ever buy a house as big and elegant as my choir director's.  I don't exactly want to spend my life cleaning!