Trekking

Today was Sam's first day at work, so the children and I decided to take a walk to a park that the front desk clerk told us was a 10 minute walk.  I'm pretty sure minutes are still minutes here, but it was not a 10 minute walk.  After walking up a hill on a 18 inch wide sidewalk with 4 children and cars whizzing by for 45 minutes, we decided to turn around.  I kept thinking that it has to be just around this next bend and, although it was scary as anything, it was really beautiful with horses and quintessential little English cottages all around.  The children were growing weary and when we finally came to a little village and met the nicest woman who told us we still had a ways to go and we had better get the car we headed back.

Fortunately, we were met at the hotel with some good news.  Sam found a place for us -laundry, Internet and a kitchen.  Things are starting to look up here in England. Tomorrow we will move out of the dump and get the boys fitted for their uniforms.