Our first week in our new place was mostly quite good. We did lots of swimming and Chris got quite a nifty Macbook from his new job. We did lots of swimming and saw lots of really excellent sunrises and…
Certainly Sony
So this may be a rather obvious thing to say, but Sony appear to make better products than Proscan, a television company we’d never heard of. In our rush to get things, we bought a tv a bit too hastily.…
Happy Arrivals
Chris’s server safely arrived from England, so that is good news, as we were both a bit worried about how to best get that to the US. As we mentioned previously, we had considered flying with it, but carrying it…
Move-in Day Part Two
On Tuesday, the bed did indeed arrive. Since it’s memory foam, it came rolled up with all the air removed: It was quite cool getting to see it just pop right up into a bed. Have a look at that…
Move-in Day Part One
Our first move-in day was sunny and lovely. We ended up doing it over two days because our lease started from Monday, but the bed wasn’t coming until Tuesday and that was also the earliest they could turn the gas on. As…
Arrival in Arizona Part 3: Shop til You Drop
On our third full day in the Phoenix area, the sky finally opened up and the weather became much more the image of Arizona in the winter – clear skies and warm for winter in the mid to high 50s…
Arrival in Arizona Part 2: Sleeping and Surfing
We woke up extremely early, but we have decided to attempt to go with this a bit. Arizona has an amazing big sky. Even on the few cloudy days, the sunrise is worth seeing: Now that we had an apartment…
Arrival in Arizona Part 1: Apartment Hunting
For our first day in Arizona, the weather was very cold for Arizona and everyone here seemed deeply confused as to why it was 40F and raining. It’s a bit like if it snows in the South of England I think…
Flight to Phoenix
We have made it Arizona and our flights were actually better than expected. We have flown with Delta before (usually at Christmas) and had only previously had horrible flights with them, but both were fine, despite one of our two flights being the…
A Proper British Curry
Chris’s sister gave us some vouchers for one of the best curry houses in the Slough area, the Akash, so it gave us an excuse to go out for one more curry before we left. They do especially nice…