Reflections after 3 months

Well, although it is hard to believe, we have now been forging our way on our new adventure for 3 months. Somethings are certainly getting easier (I can now drive to the girls school, work and the local shops without using the sat nav) and somethings, although still unfamiliar, at least we now know what to expect (those crazy supermarkets are one of them). There are many things to like about this part of East Coast of USA. The mostly bright and sunny days are a pleasure to wake up to in the mornings (and if it is raining it is usually at least proper rain and not grey drizzle UK sort of rain). There is lots of wild life where we live too - tall tall trees with lichen on them, interesting wood peckers and other birds and chipmunks and deer in the garden. I am also getting used to posting letters from our mail box at the end of the drive - finding a postbox must be sooooo inconvenient. We are now also enjoying a bit of basketball in the evenings. Somethings still remain a complete mystery though - the STOP signs in the road seem a bizarre way of controlling traffic flow, the banking system is positively archaic and the housing stock has still got me baffled (I have seen some great internal and external decoration on our hunt for somewhere permanent to live). I continue to remain amused by the local shops - the prevalence of pharmacies, nail bars, swimming pool supply stores, animal beauty salons and psychics I think all paint a strange picture of the demographics of the local population! But, spring is springing, I think we have moved on from counting the weeks and we are looking forward to the longer warmer days (especially as the ice cream parlour at the end of the road appears to have now opened for the season).