cheers!

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

 adam and i just found out we're moving to r.a.f. lakenheath sometime in september-october of this year! we're so freakin' excited, it's ridiculous. i've already bought a travel book for great britain and am addicted to english rental home websites. 

before friday, i had really resigned myself to sticking it out four or five years here in las vegas, however boring or dead-ended it might have felt. but now i feel like i have a new vigor, a reason to be excited about life for at heart i am truly a traveler! i can't wait to smell the english countryside, and taste fresh bread in the market, and see all of the birds and rabbits (i've been reading watership down, how ironic to get this news about england while reading it!).  apparently england is covered in miles of walking trails. literally, one trail is 269 miles long! one trail! and london will be 1-2 hours away, what a great weekend trip (or several, haha). and to meet people who will probably hate us to begin with just because we're american but who will hopefully find us good neighbors and maybe a little different than the stereotype they're used to...

and it really is a good thing that i didn't get accepted into unlv (because i didn't turn everything in on time, not because i'm dumb)... because now i could possibly apply at cambridge!! it's about 30-40 minutes away, are you kidding me? 

the only thing that is now up in the air i guess, is when to start having children. it seems so difficult for people who stay in one place to plan out their family, but how much more difficult when we don't know where we'll be in a few years! i guess it's just one of those things that military people have to jump into, you can't really plan where you'll be raising your kids or if you even get to do it together a lot of the time, you just have to have hope that the preparations you've made are enough and work with what you've got! so we'll see, we're putting it back on the back-burner for a while now that we're moving somewhere amazing with a lot of traveling in our future...

so i'll try to keep updates coming as we hear them. right now we're mostly just in shock of hearing the news, but trying to figure out the next 6-7 months.

English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria. --Dave Barry