Great Week!

This week we had a lot of great experiences and great news come to us.  We met our neighbors and attended a neighborhood/flat building  get-together.  We are so excited to have great, friendly neighbors. We also tasted many different flavors of chips at this party, 3 of them which were meet flavored (I can't remember what kind).  Anyway, we have made some great connections and look forward to the chances we have to continue hanging out with our new neighbors. 

One of the other great things we have learned this week was that John can work full time while he is here.  He has just updated his outsanding CV (resume) and has applied for a National Insurance Number which he needs in order to work.  The rules haven't changed.  Brandlyn apparently misread something in all her visa research and believed he could only work part time.  We are both very glad she was wrong and will keep you updated as the job hunt is now expanded!

Although we have met many new, great people this week, we have also met some not so new, great people.  Some of our friends from FBC Roswell were coming over here for a little vacation.  Well, on Tuesday they called Brandlyn's cell phone and left a message with the number to reach them at.  Of course with touch-screen technologies these days, Brandlyn's face cheek deleted the message before a number could be written. Needless to say, we weren't going to be able to meet up with them.  John, however, after running errands while Brandlyn was in class, was walking back home and happened to see them on the street.  Is it a small world or what?  Although we do live in the tourist part of the city, it was still a happy surprise. 

Next on the list of good experiences, our flat is finally warm!  It hasn't been super cold or anything, but in the mornings our little Scottish flags wave in front of the window (on the inside). We just thought it wasn't sealed properly.  Well, after John decided to climb up on the sill and check it out, it turns out our window was actually cracked open a bit at the top.  Yes....our window pulls down from the top to open, as well us up from the bottom.  Of course we knew the bottom opened, but it is a relief to know that the top opens. It certainly did minimize the breeze.

That is all our amazing and wonderful news for this week.  I am sure we will have more to report on very soon.  We are getting much busier though, so forgive us if we do not publish a post as often.  We will try to be as consistent as possible.  In the meantime, if you plan on visiting us, please let us know so that we can give you a wee wish list.  Thank you.