[graciegirl]

I think it was about ten years ago. We were vacationing with another couple and he had heard about The Villages and we drove up from Orlando in a terrible rain storm. We went to the Spanish Springs Center and I wondered why they had early American chairs and furniture in a Spanish style building, I thought maybe the business had recently changed hands. We looked a little in the old part, just driving up and down the streets, and I didn't like a number of houses that had a plethora of statues. It never stopped raining. We avoided the people in Spanish Springs Center, because we thought we would be "attacked" with a sales siege.

I later logged on to the sales site, was not impressed with the graphics, the houses and the site in general. My husband knew about all of the golf and had heard good things, and wanted to see it again and I just kept saying, NO. I am not interested!!

Our next visit was in January of this year. We stopped to visit friends who bought in Poinciana, who insisted we stay the night and we drank the water. Our friends took us around and we loved their house and neighborhood.

We came down last month to just see for ourselves on a life style visit. We certainly weren't going to buy a house.

We bought a house in Hadley. We will be down to furnish it in two weeks. We are so happy and excited that we finally found Paradise.

I must say that prior to our lifestyle visit and after we visited our friends in January I started researching homes, prices and everything I could find on TV. I found TOTV and your warmth and friendship, the silliness, the bantering, the opinions, the information, the just plain fun and sometimes intensity of this site really made me fall in love with TV before we returned for the lifestyle visit.

Thank you one and all.

GracieGirl