Contracts signed

Hi, today we signed our building contract with Metricon to build our house the Santorini 29 with the breeze facade. The process from selection to signing has taken some time so I will give a brief track of the history.
# visited Eynesbury back in July 09 and saw the block we wanted for the first time, not being impulsive at all we left a $500.00 holding fee.
# we went to our mortgage broker to see if we could do it, and he kind of said Yes. He did say other things but there was a yes amongst it.
# we were going to use a deposit bond for obviously our deposit, this was September 09.
# our deposit bond process fell through and discussions were taking place between us them and our conveyancer.
# we come to an arrangement about our deposit! this was October
# during the talks of the land we looked at many display homes at Eynesbury and other display villages that were using the listed builders. We got down to 2 builders - Metricon and Greybox. We obviuosly selected Metricon around November and we were looking at differant designs that would suit a rear loaded block (our driveway is at the back of the house), that proved to be challenging in itself! we went to a display home at Williams Landing and got talking to the sales lady in the metricon display home there (if I remember her name I will post it), She mentioned that she just completed plans for a Santorini 29 for a rear Loaded block, She printed us a copy and we went and had a look at the display home at point cook and decided this was the design. this was Late November.
# we then went and saw Max at the Eynesbury office on the 15/12/09 and filed our Request for Prelimanary Contract. We put our $1000.00 down as the start of our Dream House.
# our land had still not settled by this stage as the roads and services were still being complete, we were told that it may have been ready to settle before xmas when we first enquired, however we told others that date and they all said with smiles maybe January or Feb.
# our land settled on the 5/02/10, we then paid our Deposit, I mean we then paid the full amount plus stamp duty etc.
# we had our prelimanary contract signing on the 31/03/10 with Sylvia at Metricon, due to the design rules with Eynesbury there were some things that needed fixing and Sylvia got right onto them while we were there.
# off to studio m we went on the 29/04/10, we told Nat our consultant that we should get through in 45minutes hahahahaha, 4.5hrs later we finished with our colours, kitchen and outside design.
# today we signed our contracts 12/05/10, then we completed our electricals. we have a fibre optic package that is part of Eynesbury requirements that gave us Data points, pay t.v points and a central hub for all our data, sound all techy to me, will have to look into it. Added lights and Junction boxes for future lights outside and all our electrics come to $1700.00. Not bad looking at other bloggs and the prices people pay.
So there you have it, an update of our story so far. Time now to insert some photo's of what we are having and what will come.