Our official moving day is finally here! We'll be getting on our plane in less than 15 hours and I'm way too excited to sleep...so I'm emailing instead :) I know it's been a while since our last "chapter" but honestly, not much has happened. We sat in Alabama for 2 months...although I took a little break and headed back up to Tennessee the last weekend in March. It all started with the fact that I needed one more haircut and just went from there lol. It really was a productive weekend...I closed out a savings account, met with our real estate agent (to date the house still hasn't sold, by the way), got my hair cut and highlighted, and figured out how to renew Matt's driver's license. To get our driver's license to drive in ... read more

Well, it's Day One in Alabama. We got up early this morning, packed up the car and the dogs and were off. The dogs were whining so much when we got started that I thought Matt was going to either throw them or himself out onto the highway but they settled down after a little while and were really good the entire trip. We got into Daleville, AL (right outside of Fort Rucker) and checked into our hotel. We got the large suite...you think of a nice place when you hear the word "suite" but this really isn't nice. It's big, which is nice, but not very clean. But, it's cheap and they allow dogs, so I bought the Wal-Mart version of Clorox Cleanup and started bleaching. That helps :) After Matt got checked in on ... read more

Sarah's mom was entering a contest in town. She entered her marmalade, some eggs from her chickens, and some roses and sweet pea that she had grown. I'd never experienced anything like this sort of small town competition. They had entries from quilting all the way to pies. Do they still have things like this in America? She won honorable mention on her eggs (which was quite good since she just got those chickens a week ago!) and first place on her sweet pea. Elizabeth (Sarah's younger sister) and I ran the entries down in the morning and then went later on to see the results of the judging. Sarah drove me past Stonehenge in the morning...we were going to pay the fee and go closer but the tour buses were already there and it was ... read more

In the morning, Ali and I packed up and Pam and Richard took us to Sarah's, where we would spend the rest of our trip. They also helped us figure out what train to take from Salisbury into Woking so we could go see a friend of ours in a play. Once we got to Sarah's house just outside of Salisbury we just spent the day visiting with her, her mother, and her sister. Then we changed and caught the train into Woking. Our friend Brian was in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We called him when the train got in and he met us at the station. Then we headed on to a pub for dinner before the show. The show was great. It wasn't a fancy theatre but the singers were wonderful and ... read more

Breakfast was great, as usual, and we loaded back up into the car and headed off of Sky. Ali left her purple sweater in the restaurant in Shiel Bridge so we backtracked a bit to retrieve it. We had some time to kill until they opened for lunch so we took some more pictures of Eilean Donan while we waited. The funny part is that we ran into the guys that we met at breakfast in Shiel Bridge! They were the funniest little German men that were island hopping on holiday and I had completely forgotten about them until we saw them again. What are the chances? So, we got Ali's sweater and headed north to Ullapool. Much of the roadways north are one lane with pulloffs so you can allow traffic to pass you. It ... read more