First Week

Hello! This is my first blog post ever so it's probably not going to be my best until I get the hang of it. So stick with me!

Lots of people have been asking me for photos - unfortunately I need special software for my fancy camera to upload my pictures, and I'm not completely sure where that is right now. Hopefully I find it soon. I'm pretty sure I brought it with me and it's not still in Dallas!

We have had surprisingly good weather here this first week, more than one day of full blue sunny skies! It was a great welcome present, but the weather is supposed to turn back to cloudy and rainy over the weekend. Good thing I bought those new rain boots!

We are pretty settled into our temporary home, I actually cooked dinner tonight in our tiny kitchen. I met Stephen for lunch today at the Borough Market, which is just across the London Bridge and the Thames and runs every weekend. It's a fabulous outdoor food market and lots of fun to walk through (I have pictures of it on my Facebook page from our trip back in October). We bought several things, and everything is absolutely delicious - aged gruyere, freshly baked bread, garlic, avocados (yay!), basil, and cherry tomatoes (the likes of which I've never had before, they were amazing). All of which I used for dinner! I only bought a fraction of what I wanted, and I'm definitely going back for more.

This week I took a walk through town to visit the (world's largest) Apple store. The iPad was misbehaving and being that we are without our main computer for a while I would be very sad if it died. All turned out to be well there, but I really enjoyed the almost 2-mile walk to the store and then back again. I love living in a city where the primary mode of transportation is walking, and I don't think I'll miss driving much at all.

We just washed our first load of laundry in the combo washer/dryer and HOLY MOLY is it loud. When it hit the spin cycle Stephen and I looked at each other and wondered when the tube started running right beneath our 3rd story flat. It's ridiculous, I definitely can't run it at night. I already told Stephen that when we return to the States we are buying the biggest washer/dryer set we can find.

On the agenda for this weekend: catch up on sleep (this is mostly for Stephen), explore neighborhoods where we're interested in living, possibly check out some flats, and generally play tourist!

I'll update with photos as soon as I can, in the meantime I'll try to get some off my iPhone to make do.

Cheers from London!