For the past few days we've been either house hunting, eating, or sleeping. It's been pretty exhausting really. But today we drove to the nearish town of Bury St. Edmunds, famous for it's cathedral.
Bury is a market town, with an actual McDonalds (I haven't seen one for almost a week!), a Claires, a Starbucks, and a ton of other stores, most of which are English and I'd never seen before. There was a Christmas Fayre going on, a ferris wheel, a carousel, and candy floss, bunches of vendors, and kids in their school uniforms. Which were adorable. It was like the Pevensie kids were walking around. Caitlin got to pet a sheep. And there were llamas. And accents.
Just so you know the dining situation around here, because I really do miss Mcdonalds, on this base the American fast food restaurants are Burger King and Taco Bell. At Lakenheath, the other base a bit away, the restaurants I know of are Dominoes, Cinnabon, and an ice cream place that I can think of. The best food I've had so far besides Thanksgiving dinner at the chow hall was probably the food from the Galaxy Club, a building with a few different places to eat, on Mildenhall. The diet coke tastes like mint was added to it, but only as an aftertaste. The canned soda from the commissary is alright though.
Everyone wears the trench coat style long jackets here, I really want to get one, because they look warm, and I'm cold at all times. Right now I'm wearing my boots, but my feet are still cold. It's 29 degrees outside right now, and there was a little bit of snow yesterday, just a tiny bit, but it didn't melt off the playground because it stayed so cold today. There're posters and signs and pages in the base magazine about how they need workers in the youth care field, that looks promising, and there was even a spot in the magazine ad that said they needed piano teachers. We've got an appointment to look at a house tomorrow, and another house that we want to look at, one that has "double" bedrooms, which are about normal size, if a little bit smaller, for America.
Dad was talking about maybe going back to Bury St. Edmunds tomorrow, we didn't spend very long in the cold because we weren't all suited up, and there were a lot of stores that looked pretty cool. Mom wanted to look in the cathedral more, we weren't in there for very long, and it's a big place. Online I found out that a church has stood where the cathedral is since 1065, and it was rebuilt in 1503, then renovated again in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was officially called the cathedral in 1914. So it's old, and huge, and very pretty.In other news, we're all doing well, cold, but good. Caitlin's learning to write, she can spell "I luv snow" "Pupe bisgusigsuguts" (Later "puppy biscuits", but we're still working on that one) "fishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfish" "Stop Caitlin" and "Hape hnd" (Later "Happy hound")
Dustin is enjoying trying to speak with an English accent, and kinder eggs, and telling us that it's "Snowing really hard" when it might be considered "dusting" if you squint really hard.
We got a phone, once it starts working we might have a facebook app, so maybe we can kind of talk with that, because we can't do international yet. Driving around is really fun, if you like fearing for your life. Try figuring out the rules for a double-lane, backwards roundabout. Or, as we like doing, shut your eyes, hold on, and try to think happy thoughts. :)
(It's not really that bad, I just like being dramatic.)
Anyway, it's one kids bedtime, and judging by annoyance factor, another's will follow shortly, so I have to go.
Cheers!
