// We ended today in 4th place. Watching the standings online is nerve racking! We are bouncing all over the place between first and tenth! Our across the way neighbors are in first, which is nice to know that we share the block with a great house, but it also makes the competition harder -- being able to see their house doing better than ours. We had public tours today. Around 3pm, 2 hours before we were closing, we had sent 2054 people through the house. That is a lot of people! I didn't get a chance to get the end count, but still! 2000+ people in 5 hours, wowzers.

After tours we had our casual friends and family thank you reception in the hotel. It went extremely well. I ordered WAY too much food though. Looks like we will be having Indian appetizers for the next couple lunches. Finally we get a chance to relax! It was amazing to be chatting with everyone and their parents in a laid back environment. We ended the night sucking the helium from the decorative balloons... it is amazing how entertaining that is, or how tired we are so anything is entertaining.

Remember to vote for us in People's Choice! Text HOUSE31 to 99503! Last I heard we were in second!!! Vote now please!!!