Rudders at Home

Sometimes I forget how nice it is to drive over here. I avoid driving in the UK like the plague, but when I arrive Stateside I jump right in and go. Normally Paul and I don’t rent cars while we’re in the States, unless we have plans to travel. But, this time I rented a car for while I’m home with my mom and the boys are off on their trip. Mom and I are headed off to Ohio soon to visit the one of the largest communities of Amish in the world. I trust this Dodge Caliber will get us there safe and sound.

This is actually quite a reasonable car to drive. I’m loving it. it’s hard to believe that Paul and I saw one of these in our local mall the last weekend we were in the UK and exclaimed how huge it was. Somehow it doesn’t seem that big at all when I look at it from this angle!

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Yippee!! It’s so good to have a car. Very indulgent, to a point, I guess, but it’s soooo good to have a car. We have so much freedom now it seems. It’s lovely. Last night, we went to a grocery store around town, and today, we woke up late, but still managed to take a day trip.

We went to Bodiam Castle. Very cool. Looks like a fairy tale castle – exactly what you think of when you think of medieval castle. It’s got the towers, the moat, everything. And nowhere near a train station!!!! It is SO good to have a car again. Normal life has almost resumed 100%.

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Just a quick update here! We’ve been busy, and I’ve had no time to devote to the site. I wanted to share some news and also let you know really quickly what Paul and I have been up to.

Paul and I went to Nice in February, which was great. While we were there we took the train down to Monaco for the day. Also, we’ve had tons of people round, for dinner and the like, but we’ve also had company here. Friends from the states stayed with us for a while.

We have also, and this is our really big news, wait for it… bought a CAR!! I know, how great! We got ourselves a Ford Focus, and no, it’s not silver! We’re so tickled, and we’re planning our weekend already, as well as all our future trips. We have so many ideas – I can’t wait for our first road trip!

Here are some pics for now. We’ll put photos up from Nice soon as well.

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