One very long day in early May, we bought a house. Well, more precisely, we bought getting a house built. The house will most likely be done around Christmas and that is when we will actually take possession of it.…
House Hunting Part 1: Mostly Maricopa
So around the start of the year, like many people, Chris and I found ourselves reevaluating our lives. We decided we wanted to move out of an apartment and into a house. We had a look at a few housing…
Minor Differences: License Plates
There are a few differences between plates for cars in the UK and the US. In the US, of course, the state system comes into play. As with driver licenses, license plates for cars are done on the state level,…
Driver License
Chris is now licensed to drive in the state of Arizona. This was a bit of nerve wracking process for him. He is an excellent driver, but the list of nations that have agreements that allow their citizens to just come to…
Christmas Day
The weather Christmas Day was cold by Arizona standards, but fairly clear. We did the British version of Christmas this time, doing what Americans would very much think of as Thanksgiving food: turkey, stuffing, potatoes (roasted and mashed), parsnips, carrots, green…
Wesołych Świąt! (Happy Christmas! (Merry Christmas! (Feliz Navidad!)))
Chris grew up celebrating a British Christmas day, but also celebrating Wigilia, which is the traditional Polish Christmas Eve, as his maternal grandparents were from Poland. This was our first attempt at doing Wigilia on our own. The word comes from…
Christmas Party!
Our apartment community has done parties for many major holidays and Christmas was no exception. As it was a bit colder, this was not a pool party, but rather took place in the club house and the outside areas around…
Christmastime in Arizona
December is the coldest month in Arizona, so the Christmas season hasn’t quite been like being in the Southern Hemisphere during the Christmas period. That said, other than São Paulo, Brazil, this is the warmest place I’ve been during the…
National Tree DUH-75 7.5-feet Dunhill Fir Hinged Artificial Christmas Tree
As I’ve recently discussed, we didn’t bring too much with us when we came over from the UK. We got rid of lots of things before moving. We didn’t actually get rid of our Christmas tree, but it’s still 5000…
New Furniture
When we first arrived in Arizona in January, we naturally brought very little with us as a piece of furniture has to be an antique or a work of art to be worth sending across an ocean. We got rid…