Michael graduated (with Honors!) from Covenant
We packed up our apt.
We sold many of our things including most all of our furniture.
We moved down to AL.
We took a little trip down to FL to see my mom and catch a little sun time.
And now, we are in Culcheth for the next 2.5 weeks.
So instead of trying to go back and tell you about all of the craziness and fun and hard and etc. we have faced in the last month, let's just talk about what we are up to now. Maybe I will come back to those things later....maybe.
Let's just start with our trip here. Well, let's back up a little. Last week (as many of you probably saw on Facebook), I ended up getting food poisoning and was on the couch from Tues. evening till right before leaving. I slowly got better and well enough to know I could make it on the flight over...it was iffy for a bit whether we were going to be even able to make it here to England on our scheduled date.
Praise the Lord, we made it here and while I am not 100% still, I am doing much better. In the last day or so, I have been able to eat more than just bland foods, which has been great.
The flight over was fairly uneventful. We flew from B'ham to ATL, then took an overnight flight to Manchester. The girls did great. We were able to put a movie on for the girls and she watched that then ate a little dinner. After that it was probably about 9 our time and they turned the lights down and Evie went right to sleep in my arms. SK took a little time going to sleep, but then they both ended up sleeping probably 4 hours almost. It was lovely. I did have a bit of a hard time getting comfortable with Evie sprawled out on my lap and not wanted to move too much as to chance waking her. Overall, it went great though.
We got to England at about 8:30 a.m. (meaning about 2:30 a.m. Central Time Zone). 2 guys from the church came and picked us up and took us straight to Trace and Ginger's house (where we are staying while here). We dropped off our bags and went straight to the Cafe (just a 5 minute walk is all) for breakfast. We were starving and it was a lovely breakfast :) We got to see a few friends from CCC there, which was fun as well. After eating we walked on back home and got Evie down for a nap. We all ended up falling asleep then :) Michael and I woke after just about an hour, though we could have slept more, we knew it wouldn't help with adjusting to the time change. We woke SK up too after a few more minutes. We then had to wake Evie up after about a 3 hour nap (which is about her norm at AL). We decided to walk back down to the village centre and check out the playground then get a few groceries at Sainsbury's.
Yesterday we walked around Culcheth and chilled for the most part. We ate lunch at the cafe and took SK to see the Primary school. Nothing big that day though. We did have Bruce and Bea over after dinner to hang a bit.
Today we ventured out to Leigh, a nearby village. We rode the bus and walked around Leigh all morning. Meaning, we got lost a bit and ended up walking what seems like around the entire perimeter of Leigh till we finally found our way back to the bus station. We went in Tesco to check it out, got a chocolate eclair at Waterfield's, and had a great time there. We decided as it got closer to lunch to ride the bus on back towards Culcheth, but stopped at a very neat place called Bents (we came to it last year while here as well). We got lunch there (and it was so delicious!) and looked around at all the cute things and plants and such. Now we are back and Evie is napping.
I hope to do more blogging about our time here just to have a fun document of our fun time here ;) SK is loving it so far. She says she wishes she could live at the cafe. She loves the cars, esp. the mini coopers :) She loves being around the people here. She was sad last night when we put the girls to bed because she wanted to keep hanging out with Bruce and Bea.
More blogging to come soon! Here is a little sampling of some pics too:
1 of the beautiful roses blooming in Trace and Ginger's back garden
(The flowers and gardens here are incredible by the way...so so so incredible)
SK the photographer got a pic of us :)
Evie playing in the back garden
Hydrangeas fresh from the garden and a yummy cheese board for after dinner hang out with Bruce and Bea. There is a lovely delicateessen, where we got yummy cheeses and such. Love that shop and will be there plenty during our time here I am sure :)
Waiting on the bus this morning...I look not so great, but the girls are cute at least :)
Daddy finishing off the Chocolate Eclair this morning....yum.
Waiting on the bus to head to Bent's for lunch. Evie loved riding the bus and waiting for it too. She waves at any cars or busses that pass by. It's so cute :)
Alright, that's all for now. More to come though :)
Praying for y'all! So great to see so many pictures and hear you are actually able to eat!! :)
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