Granite, Lumber, and Turtles OH MY.

Wow, did we do a lot today.

We started the day at United Corp. International to see if we could find a nice granite remnant for the two sinks in the upstairs bathroom.

The granite graveyard.

We were hoping to find a large enough piece of Baltic Brown granite, or St. Cecelia granite, but since our sinks were apparently NOT made to standard size (shocking, I know), all of the pieces were way too small for what we needed. So our sales guy decided to take us to another part of the warehouse where the larger remnants were located.

We didn't end up finding anything that we really liked, and instead of settling on a $400 piece of granite we kind of liked, we decided to come back to this later. We still have to paint, tile the floors, and refinish the cabinets, so there's plenty of time. But we are definitely going to go with UCI when its time. FYI, we've done a lot of research, and they most definitely have to best prices in Atlanta. And the staff is so nice!

We vowed our next stop would be more successful, so we headed over to Lumber Liquidators.

So many options...

Charisma Medway Park Merbau 7mm

We had pretty much decided on a the Medway Park Merbau laminate when we looked on the website. And since this weekend they were having a Memorial Day sale, we decided it was time to stop stalling and go ahead and get our 1200 sq. ft. of flooring.

The price was originally $1.09 per square foot, but our super-nice sales guy did us a favor because of the amount we were buying. He ended up dropping the price down to $.99 per square foot. It doesn't sound like much, but after that many square feet, underlayment, and quarter round, it helped a lot.

The only thing is we do have to come pick it up ourselves, and some how learn how to install it ourselves as well, but that's fine with us. Considering the $10,000 (yes, THOUSAND) quote Simply Floored gave us to install, we'll take the risk.

So after we made a stop at Wal-Mart we headed back to the house to finish painting. I worked on painting the edges of all of the rooms I started yesterday and painted the master bedroom, while Mike and his friend Brian attempted to install our new garage door opener... then came the rain.

Cats and dogs.

Surprisingly, besides making conditions a little more humid and gross, it didn't stop any progress. We got the motor up, front door locks changed, and all the rooms painted.

The day ended kind of weirdly. When we were getting ready to lock up and leave, Brian yelled for us to come out and see this...

Yes, that is a giant turtle. Crossing the road like its the most normal thing in the world. Considering there is only a tiny man made cement basin of a lake, and a major highway two blocks a way, we couldn't figure out where he was going, or where he came from, but it was kind of neat to see.