Florida for Thanksgiving, Arkansas awaits

James and Tat made it to Tallahassee for Thanksgiving this year. Micah sadly couldn't make it as he is being all studious. Pictures of our family are here (thanks, Erik). We had a good time - now Tat and James are getting ready to go to Arkansas Saturday for some time with Tat's dad and his side of the family.

Some random thoughts about life in London that I haven't gotten down yet:

Meeting people. Most of the people we meet in London, including people in our ward at church, are foreigners. (Somehow, I'm not sure that James has a chance of developing a British accent this way.) So far, besides U.K. citizens, I've met people from Argentina, Australia, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Trinidad, and the U.S. Yeah. A veritable melting pot.

James. Keeps asking to see the sharks and fish here in Florida. I tell him they live in London (at the London Aquarium, to which we have an annual pass) and that he'll have to wait until we go back there on the plane. Also confuses the word "jellyfish" (from the aquarium) with "peanut butter and jelly sandwich," and so asks for a "jellyfish sandwich" from time to time. So darn cute.

Our Flat

We live in Bloomsbury, just down the street from the British Museum. You enter through the street door, ascend twenty-odd stairs, go through another door, cross a little terrace, and then enter through the flat door. At this point, you're on the main level of the flat, with a living room and kitchen (pictures of each are above). As you can see, we haven't yet received the desk we ordered from IKEA for my computer in the living room, and in the kitchen, we don't have a dishwasher, but there is a combination washing machine/dryer.

Then you ascend another 17 stairs to the bedrooms (two of them) and bathroom. The flat has been comfortable and extremely conveniently located. And now that we're finally getting set up with our internet connection, my computer, and soon, a desk for said computer, it feels like home.

Anyway, the sofa in the living room is a fold-out, so please come and visit! There are lots of fun things to do in London, and I'm getting very good at carrying James in his stroller up and down the steps in the Underground now, so I will not slow down your sightseeing. Much.

Halloween

James dressed as everyone's favorite Dagobah-dweller this year, thanks to the gift of the costume from Uncle Jared and Aunt Nicole. We went to a community-sponsored Halloween party on the 30th (where the pictures of the little vampire and skeleton are from) and a Church-friends-type party on the 31st (where the group picture is from). We had a good time and surprisingly (but encouragingly) stayed away from too much candy.

A new post with pictures and video of the flat will be coming soon.