Yay for Finding a House!

We found a house! After looking at seemingly a billion choices, we found the perfect house and were able to negotiate with the owner. She seems to be really nice, and luckily for us, is currently updating the place. It looks great so far. It's out in the English countryside in a little village that's practically nothing but old buildings (and when you say old in England, you really mean older than the United States), but it's minutes away from the base and about 15 minutes or so from a larger town with lots of shopping (happy, happy). We're supposed to move in around Thanksgiving.

The search for a house has allowed us to do a lot of driving around and site-seeing. We visited a fairly large town nearby this past weekend called Bury St. Edmonds. I wonder when we'll figure it out that making spontaneous trips without a plan or a detailed map NEVER works out for us...especially with two boys who are ready for a nap.
We did kind of get a lay of the land, though, so that was good for the future. And Jim got more practice driving in more traffic, and I must say, he did great. :)
Speaking of driving, guess who drove by herself in the dark and mist yesterday evening? Yep! Me! Of course, it was a grand total of about a mile round trip. But, I'm proud. Especially proud of the fact that I had to go around a dreaded British roundabout (backwards from the US way, of course)...nevermind that there was only one other car on it. And also nevermind that I wasn't supposed to go on the roundabout in the first place (got just slightly lost). "Oh, look kids, there's Big Ben"! :)