Well, we're all settled in our temporary flat here in Windsor. We'll be moving this weekend again to our bigger 3-bedroom flat. We are still experiencing bouts of jet lag, but the kids are sure bouncing back quickly! The flight was around 8 hours and they did fantastic! They happily watched a couple movies (Toy Story 2 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid), read, slept, and ate. The kids all have food allergies so I planned their food ahead - pre-planning their meals and bringing our soft-sided cooler on board ended up working out perfectly! We're discovering some of the differences from home already--the washer/dryer combo is in the kitchen and I'll surely need to read the manual to figure out how to use it! The convection oven (in Celcius) also needed some manual reading. Another thing that I love are that the windows are without screens as there are no bugs! Now if only I could figure out how to dry my load of towels in the washer and use my converter to charge my laptop--arghh! Today we made like true Europeans and walked to a grocery store. That's right, no minivan pulling up to a ginormous grocery store with endless options! We simply walked about a mile to Peascod Street to the local Marks & Spencer. While trying to grab a "trolley" (that's a shopping cart to us Americans) we realized they were all locked up. We inquired with the cashier who informed us we needed to insert Pounds to unlock it--luckily I had brought along some reusable shopping bags so we opted for that instead. After stocking up on a few things, we walked around Windsor and ate just outside Windsor Castle on one of the several benches, which is amazingly HUGE, I really can't believe how big it is. But the odd thing is it is set literally *right* on the road...I figured it would have more land around it. Windsor is such a neat town to walk around, although the stroller on the cobblestone streets made for quite the bumpy ride for Miss Ava! All in all it was a good first day and so fun to watch the kids' excitement about everything. Even if Braden does still think people talk "London" and use "London Money" ;-)
