Things have been very rainy in Swavesey and the Cambridge area for the past 8 days or so. It's been solid rain all day most of the time, which is unusual here. Plus since water and cameras don't mix, I haven't been taking many pictures either. :) The rain has kept us from biking much too, so the most exciting thing going on most days is the latest spider sighting, and watching G's willow twigs growing a little bigger everyday. Because of the weather we've been doing loads of reading, and most recently we've been reading up on stress inoculation, which is what the military, police, airplane pilots, firemen, and others who have to perform well in high stress situations use to train their people. We also use it in a small way to train students who will be going overseas on the summer trips to the 3rd world. I've also been doing some cross stitch, which is nice.
Our new mattress is wonderful- all 3 of us (me, G and Nelly) are sleeping better every night, and although we sometimes can't find each other because the bed feels so big (we went from a Full to a Queen) one of us isn't getting an elbow in the face, a foot put on top of us, or a paw in the eye each night. :) G got the bedframe sorted out before I got back, and now we're working on rearranging the spareroom to make it more useful, and getting rid of all the suitcases we've been holding onto. Realistically we are not going to move our stuff back by suitcase, so out they go. It's cheaper in fact at this point to just get a container and have it sent by ship. Also cheap and high quality furniture is plentiful here second hand, so we might bring some back with us. Anyway we never plan that far in advance, so we'll know when it happens. :)
We've continued to meet with K and T, our Japanese friends, and they've been watching the Hope video. They are the most determined people I've ever met- they read the bbl constantly and are trying to decide now if they want to completely follow JC or not. We've been really blessed by them- they're leaving for Japan August 26th, and we're hoping that in the course of the next year we'll be able to visit them at their house near Tokyo and see how they are doing.
Thank you all for the birthday wishes on G's birthday- neither of us can believe that he's 32! But can I just say that we Americans have a distorted view of our life timelines? In Europe as well as most of Asia it is unusual for a person to get married before 30, and if they start having kids around 32 that's about the norm. My friends here always express surprise when we tell them how old we were when we got married. By getting married early we're ahead of the curve here. :)
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