Staring down at the green marble countertop feeling the cool air conditioned air waft through the slatted glass window in front of me, listening to the police sergeant one-finger type a report, I thought… this is really not where I pictured my day going. I woke early Sunday morning SUPER excited for the vintage meet…
Category: Expat Life
Missing Target and learning to shop in the UK
I saw a shirt today that said “Can’t be trusted along in Target,” and it made me giggle…and then it made me a little sad. For me, a Target run was at least a weekly occurrence if not multiple times a week when we lived in Corona. With three Targets within a fifteen minute drive,…
Two kayaks on the local river
Here at RAF Alconbury (RAFA) we’re super blessed to have a great Outdoor Recreation office that offers several things for us to do. For not much money we can do anything from weekend trips like white water rafting, hiking on Hadrian’s Wall, and exploring North Wales to day/evening excursions like rock climbing, indoor climbing, archery…
Two tickets…to London
This past Sunday, we spent an deceptively warm day in London. Since London is so huge and we didn’t even know where to start, we decided to take it on the way you’d eat an elephant, one bite at a time. I knew I would be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the city, the…
First things first…unaccompanied goods
About a week ago we sent our first shipment of goods on their way across the globe to meet us in England. For those of you not versed in military PCS speak, these were our unaccompanied goods, 700 lbs of things (not furniture or anything large) that we could send ahead to meet us when…
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