Saturday, March 20, 2010

Lost in England

I have changed the title of my post to Ohio Mommy Lost in England. This is exactly how I feel right now. Today consisted of searching the grocery stores for sour cream-which was quite an adventure, finding things Bean needs for school on Monday, while still navigating the house and the differences within (if you have not read my previous post, go there for more details on this). Getting lost, I mean, finding our way around the town and surrounding areas. But seriously, we are lucky that hubby was here long enough to have general ideas of how to get around. I am going to attempt to drive tomorrow, but I am more nervous than ever --roundabouts, unusual road signs and cow, horse and elderly crossings galore (not joking). People here seem to hit a roundabout and just haul butt around it. And they have them at every corner --no stop signs and very few stop lights. Even the highway we were on today has roundabouts to get on and off. As far as I can tell, you have to guess at how fast to go. We rarely saw speed limit signs. Our air freight came today and it was very nice to have things from home show up. I am missing everyone and everything, but it feels better to have simple things from home. We are still fighting jet lag and by evening we are all exhausted. I am about to put the girls to bed, more to come tomorrow on our adventure.