House hunting

Perhaps you are wondering where the blogs have been. Did you guys find a place to live? Why no update? Why no more cutesy commentary?
Well, honestly, we are a bit discouraged. The house hunt was slightly less fruitful than we had hoped. Apparently, the outdoorsy, liberal, dog loving community of Eugene isn't so dog friendly to its renters. We saw a lot of places and called a lot of people. Either a house was dog friendly and gross or awesome and not dog friendly or some other combination of the two in a bad neighborhood or way too expensive.
We did find 2 awesome places and put in applications for both. One is super cute and close to campus, not usually pet friendly but the owner liked us and said she'd think about making an exception. The other place was cute like a tree house, a little farther from campus but less expensive. That place already had a family interested in it, so we'd be next in the line. Neither of these places feels particularly certain.
So there's the story on that. Still no where to live yet. But, ha, we persevere!
In the mean time, we did hang out with some great people, drink some great coffee, and eat some great food. And if nothing else, all the driving around and looking at places gave us a feel for the city and a definite idea of what we want and where we want it.