In England!

So after flooding interstates and a delayed flight, we made it to England around lunchtime on Tuesday. We flew on buddy passes, thanks to Bethany, and so we got on first class! A first time for the both of us and it was fantastic! Absolutely the best way to travel ever.

We stayed in a B&B the first three nights and have stayed with friends since then so that we can work on our apartment before we officially live there. Let's just say it needs some touch up work. We got our internet hooked up tonight, so now we are online!

We have Skype on our cell phones here, so anyone with Skype can call either of us and it rings our cell phones. It will look like we are always on Skype because it is always on our phones! Call us if you want to chat, we would love to hear from you!

Classes started today at the University and students are everywhere. We live right next door to Canvas which is right in the middle of where lots of students live. It is a great location. 1,000 Canvas welcome bags are being distributed this week to students and our first official event is a Kick-Off Party on the 6th!

More info to come later when we get a bit more settled. And pics to come as well. Love to all!!

VISAS!!!!

Our visa applications have been approved and we are receiving our visas today!!!

We are so excited! It has been a long process and we are finally leaving for England. Officially. We have flights for Monday night to Manchester. We still have to finish packing and moving, but tonight we won't be doing anything except watching Tech beat Miami. :)

My cell phone will be active through Saturday and Mike's phone will be active until Monday night. And of course we have email and Skype.

Thanks to everyone who helped us make it to England!

Waiting...

We have had a lot of friends and family ask what our status us over the past few days. So, we wanted to give an update to everyone. We are still waiting on our visas.

We did receive an email letting us know that our visas are in the assessment process and they will send us another email when they have made a decision. Given their statistics, our guess is that we will hear something by Friday of this week. Once they decide to issue our visas, they will email us to let us know and then mail them to us. Once we get the visas in the mail, we will leave within a day or two. With all of that taken into consideration, our guess is that we will be leaving sometime next week. (The 21st - 25th.)

We will be sure to blog when we get our visas!

Stella

We are selling our Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo before we leave. Click here to see the Craigslist posting. Shoot me an email if you are interested! It is a great vehicle and I am sad to see her go!

PS - Her name is Stella. :)