England...

England is so beautiful! Yesterday we got a chance to drive out in the countryside a bit and it was absolutely breath-taking! Its been a lot of fun exploring our new home. We have fallen in love with Cambridge. It is a great city, with so much to offer. We are hoping to find a home there but there aren't too many options right now. I guess its their busy time and lots of people are moving into the city right now. So we'll see.

We decided to rent a car Saturday, since our sponsor is out of town for a few weeks and we don't know anyone else to show us around. But it works since Sam and I like to just go and figure things out for ourselves. But driving is so strange. I still can't get over that we drive on the other side of the road and its really weird seeing the steering wheel on the right hand side of the car. :) I haven't drove yet...I'm too scared! And people tend to drive like crazy people here. The speed limits are different here too. You'll be on the narrowest and tiniest road with cars parked on the side and cars are going like 70 mph. Its pretty intense. I'm still surprised that we haven't either been hit or hit someone ourselves. Sam and I decided that we'll be the cautious drivers here (at least until we get the hang of it) rather than the aggressive ones we were back in the states. Our moto has been "mind the curb". Haha :) I'll have to explain that one later. So we've been doing lots of driving around and all I have to say is that buying our GPS has been the best purchase of all time. I honestly don't know how people would find there way without it.

As for house hunting, its slowly progressing. I have my list of homes that we're interested in. But apparently realtors don't work or aren't open on the weekends (i can understand not being open on Sunday but Saturday...really?) so we left a bunch of messages and hopefully we'll hear back from them today. But in my heart I know that God has the perfect house picked out for us and we will love it. He has been so faithful throughout this whole journey so far and I feel so silly for stressing out as much as I did. He has made things go so smoothly that it almost brings tears to our eyes to know how much He truly loves us and provides for us. :)

We went to church yesterday here at base. We had to hit up the 5 pm service because we are so messed up time wise...thanks to the time zone change. Goodness, we couldn't go to sleep until about 4 am on Saturday night/Sunday morning and then ended up not even waking up until 3 pm on Sunday. Insane I know. So last night the both of us took a couple tylenol pm and went to sleep by 11 pm and woke up at 8:30 am. So things are looking better in that aspect. :) But back to church. It was ok. We liked worship but didn't really feel that connection with the pastor. So we'll see what happens. Since we are staying here on base for a few weeks, we'll probably continue to go there until we find a house and then we can see what is closer to us and what might be a better fit for us.

On a sad note, we don't have internet in our room here so I've been coming down to this internet cafe thing on base to check email and stuff. So that means that I probably won't be able to post any pictures for a little bit anyways. But I promise I will as soon as I can. We have so many to share with you. :)

It hasn't really hit us that we are in England and this is our new home for the next couple of years. I feel like we're just visiting...but thats probably because we are living in a hotel room and don't have much of our stuff with us. Sam and I were talking and thought it would hit us when we get a house and all of our stuff gets here. Then it'll begin to feel like home I suppose.

We have felt really welcome by our squadron though. When we arrived to our hotel room, it had been fully stocked with all kinds of food for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. We also had a big welcome basket full of maps, brochures, housing info, a drivers manual, squadron stuff, and even a potted plant. I was so impressed. We also have gotten a few phone calls from commanders wives making sure that we are settling in ok and seeing if we needed anything. Our first night here, we went out to dinner (as exhausted as we were, but i didn't want to be "that couple" that didn't wanna hang) and I got to meet a few of the wives. They all seem really nice and I think I'll fit in great.

Thanks for all of your prayers! And I will continue to keep everyone posted on whats going on in our lives. We love ya all!