It's a small world after all

So here I am in Mildenhall at an AF wives meeting. I look back at the last the next presenter and I know her. She is a women who went to my old church back home and I even help chaperone her son on a mission trip to Mexico. Her husband is Army, one of the few stationed in England at an Airforce hub.

Sunday, Leon and I got to meet the rest of her family at chapel. It was really intresting to find how small the armed forcs world really is.

The same thing also happened at out last duty station in FL. On the ultimate frisbee field, I turned to ask a man if he wanted to play the next point. When he turned to me, I saw it was an old friend from that same town I grew up in. Who would have known that I can't escape my hometown, it follows me everywhere. :)

British housing in the non-ghetto. Plus a 3 bedroom home without 2 of them being walk in closets.

Notice how there are three trashcans. They have an established eco-friendly system. The brown can is for garden waste. The blue is for dry recyclables. Anything but glass will go. The black can is for anything that is indeed trash, fish bones qualify for this catagory. I am enjoying the fact that I can recycle and not have to go out of my way to do it, or pay to have it done. Very nice.

Most homes here boast of having 4 bedrooms. What they fail to mention two, if not three, of those rooms are dressing rooms: our version of walk in closets. Our home does not have a single closet in it. We will get loaner wardrobes from FMO, which we will hang my dress and his nice cloths in. Of course a handy dandy dresser will always come in. I love this form of storage. It is beautiful and a nice focal point in a room. Talk to me in six months, to see if I still am enamored with it, but right now I like it. Plus, we found a nice little place that auctions almost anything, but cars, every Saturday. We will be making future trips to the auction to furnish our house with that cute little peice of british furniture. You can see our purchases in the pictures. The chair has the cutsest print ever. Also, use this blog as a before. Since these pictures were taken, a crafty little elf painted the kitchen in a beautiful teal color and plans on painting more rooms. Also, we have done some gardening. I did not tak any before pictures of my flower bed, since there was nothing in it execept a lone rose bush

Our Japanese import British car

This is information on how to change the drive from 4L, 4H, and 2H. We could not read it either since it is Japanese. Proof that our car was indeed inported from Japan, like the man who we purchased this car from on Ebay said.

Okay, notice that green spring. That is the cupholder. British cars don't have cupholders. A very creative person came up with this useful wonder.

So there you have it. We bought this 1990 with 83K for 585 puonds. That is roughly just under $1000. Not too shabby. It is leather with heated seats. I love that feature, since it is the coldest climate I have lived in. :)

Progress

Today marks the 15th day of our experience in England. We have yet to find a Tesco with a furnished sushi aisle. Our quest will continue for a quick sushi fix joint. You people with sushi bars in your commisaries better take advantage of them.

Jiji's mom was right, extreme jet lag lasts for about a week. The rule of thumb is one day for every hour  difference. It feels so wonderful to be on a normal schedule again. Anyone planning a honeymoon or a vacation with a time difference should plan on staying two weeks if their destination is more than four hours different. Jumping forward or back also plays a role. Since we were used to staying up late in the states, it was killer. Going to Hawaii would have been an easy peesy move.

Once we got on a normal schedule, we were able to accomplish the necessary. We went to the ever wonderful newcomers' briefing. Tid bits of useful information packed into an entire day of sitting down listening to things we already should know.

One such tid bit was a brief history about RAF Mildenhall. If I heard correctly, it is the only naming system from WWII that hs been retained. Notice the KC-135 (the largest plane in the center plane fueling the smaller F-16) tail wing with the letter D in a black box. Well, in order to identify the base the craft was from, they came up with an arrangement of letters and shapes in combination. RAF Mildenhall was assigned the box D. Kinda neat.

For an extended story about RAF Mildenhl go here.

Anyways, we found a rental house and bought a car. We have accomplished the major things we needed to do before L goes back to work as normal. More on the house and car later.

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