Fish Friday

I'm pleased to be writing my first blog post from our new home in Epsom, Surrey!
After a quick and comfortable flight from Houston to London, Sean and I arrived at Jubilee House to enjoy our new digs. We love it! (The welcome bag and prosecco in the fridge were a nice suprise!)

Tea and Biscuits make for a great welcome bag!

After a much-needed nap, we headed over to Barclays to open our UK bank accounts. The service was great, but it takes *a lot* longer to open a new account here than in The US. The processing time was made interesting, however, while our banker told us all she knew about Texas from the MTV program, Big Tips Texas. According to her comments, it paints a "great" picture of the lone star state.

Following that, we went to acquire new sim cards for our mobiles, but apparently acquiring sim cards is a privilege only afforded to those with British-based bank cards in hand...and as we had only just opened our account- we were denied the opportunity to pay money to a business. Luckily, we were both too tired to be frustrated, so we did what any newly-arrived Briton would do: came home and ordered a sweetcorn pizza!

I didn't even have to bring a can of niblets to the pizza shop!

Today, we awoke after only 12 hours of sleep and set off to the promised land for new flat-dwellers, Ikea! The journey reminded me of a prior quest (Sarah and Claire) to locate the Ikea in Budapest. Much like that time, Sean and I felt so accomplished to have arrived, we took a victory photo:

Rentysomethings in their natural habitat.

While it took us the entire afternoon, we managed to locate and purchase just about everything we needed- right down to the exact same dish brush we purchased at Ikea Houston. Ah, globalization.

Upon our return from the Ikea safari, we decided to partake in "Fish Friday" at the local Wetherspoons.There is little I like more than taking photos of Sean with a pint, so I'll sign out with a gem for your viewing pleasure:

There might be a cider in this photo, too...