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good news my adoring readers... as fate should have it, my job as a real estate photocrapher has once again brought me to the area neer the aforementioned Extreme Makeover Home. i promised you guys new pics, and this was my chance. as luck should have it, we once again have a listing in Penngrove, this time ON the same street as the house, but further away than the other house that i photgraphed monday. as it turns out, today was the completion day, and the family was brought in today, just hours after i was there. anyways, this is how it went down:
 
knowing that i would probably hit a bunch of trffic in the area i approached casually, but as it turns out, they actually had the road around the house completely blocked off. there were cars parked nearly a mile away from the house for people who wanted to get a look at the finished house. i didnt know they were showing it off. (this is before i found out that this was the day of the unveiling) so as i aproach i eventually hit a road block and the guy there basicly told me to comeback tomorow. now i HAD to get in :-D so instead i went around the other way hoping i could, at the very least, reach the house i HAVE to take pictures of.  but sure enough, there is a roadblock there too. i try again with my "photos for a real estate listing" thing again. this time the guy says for me to pull over as he checks with... someone. he eventually comes back ant tells me to go ahead, but i have to go in, do my business and leave. so i go in, drive to the house, take my pictures and pull down the driveway..... now i can either turn right and go back the way i came..... or turn left and head toward THE house. i turned left. luckily there was a huge bus going by (i guess it was bussing people to the area) and i just kinda snuck in behind it. as i aproached, i whipped out my work digicam in hopes of sneaking in a pic. then, as i turn left at the intersection RIGHT in front of the house, the bus stops and i am kinda stuck behind it. it is then that i realize that i can see the house clearly in my side view mirror. so i roll up my windows (to provide some privacy) and pic up my camera and casually take a picture out my passenger side. the resulting picture can be seen on my photo blog (seeing things under "links").

so then, back at work during our party i notice one of the poeple there has the blue "extreme makeover" tshirts on... and is notcieably sunburned. small world i know. i over hear him telling other people that they unveiled the house to the family... which would explain the roadblocks, the tour buses and the huge crowds of people. so... i guess the lucky family is, as i type, enjoying their brand, spankin' new huge house built specificly with their daughter in mind. i couldnt believe that i was looking at a completed house that was nothing but a skeleton of studs on monday. its crazy.  ill try and go back, when there isnt a huge mess of people, and take ssome descent pics.. but thats the best i could do and not get in trouble.