Flypath

Now there is always a hidden clause when you sign a contract, some small print that will make things complicated. Well our house has one big hidden clause. In fact, it a very not discreet problem: we are on a flypath.
For those who do not know, it means that planes almost land in our neighbor's yard. It means noise. Loud jet noises.
We should have heard it when we visited, right? Well, we did not. We did not even ear anything for the first four days in the house. Then one evening, it was loud and roaring every five or ten minutes. I wondered how I did not hear this before. How did I missed this? Was I enjoying the house so much that I did not hear the planes until four days in??  We did hear some planes when we came to sign the lease - but we were probably too fed up with the rental unit, and too excited by the house features to notice the noise.
So our first Friday night, while trying to watch a movie, and having to pause it every ten minutes, Paul and I could only wonder on how to deal with this - now and for the next three to five years. How to sustain our sanity with such annoying noises? The following day was pretty relax, yet I felt we were a bit robbed of our peace of mind with all these planes going. Lying by the pool under roaring jet noises is not relaxing. Albeit it is not constant, it is not pleasant.
I swear I must have wondered hundreds of time how we could we not have heard something when we first visited?!
Then, on Sunday morning, after one more plane at 6 AM, the first of the day, that was it. There was not really any other loud planes later that day. Of course we could hear planes passing over the next neighborhood, but it was normal plane noise - distant - and at this point I qualified it as pleasant.
So tonight when the planes started to go low again, I did not really get phased up as much. It will be passing. Only temporary. Not all the time. Only when the weather is like this or the wind like that (which I still need to figure out). But I am feeling much better that we are not in a full fledge flypath. Because that would be much more difficult to bear.
And later, when the kids were heading to bed, Noam told me that he did not like the noises, that it was a bit annoying to have this again and again, that maybe we should not have rented the house. I tried to encourage him to see it only occurs for short stretches of time - hoping to make it easier on him. Hopefully it will work.