Getting Here.

Happy New Year!

We had some problems getting Internet, but we have it now! We are still working on setting up the phone. The fact that none of our electrical appliances work here without adapters is just one of the ways that everything is different.

Also, we were saving the camera batteries until we could get the right adapter (which we have now), so there's not much here as far as good pictures go.

We left Baton Rouge around 2:15 on Saturday afternoon. Eight hours later, we arrived at Gatwick airport in London on Sunday morning, just before sunrise. (London is six hours ahead of Baton Rouge. For example, 12 Noon in BR is 6pm in London.)

That's the pickup lane outside of the airport where drivers run over anything that gets in their way!

Then it was time to rent a car. Dad strategically packed the luggage, but it barely fit into the Scion-like 7 passenger vehicle. So Mom, Nathan and Aaron took the train, Dad drove the car and I navigated. Sitting on the right side of the vehicle, driving on the left side of the road, going through roundabouts, reading the street markings and trying to get to a specific location is a job for no less than two people.

Only by the grace of God, we arrived safely at our apartment building.

Welcome.

Then it was New Years Eve and there were fireworks over Reading.

We watched them from the second floor of our apartment.

The sun was shining today! The days are short here; it doesn't get light until about 7:30am and it starts getting dark around 3:30pm.

More later.