Sat 25 April

We went to Cambridge today which is about 25 miles away from where we live. It was a great day to be outside! The weather has been great since we have been here. We went to Kings College in Cambridge and got to go inside the chapel. It was very pretty with lots of stained glass windows. We also did a little shopping. Some of the stores were extremely expensive! I’m talking like 300 dollars for a shirt. I don’t think so. Luckily, we did find some stores that were more like US prices. We ate at a great pub called The Eagle Pub. We both ordered the bangers and mash. For you Americans, that’s sausage and mashed potatoes. It’s amazingly good!

Fri 24 April

We went to Newmarket today, which is known for it’s horse racing. We ate some famous fish and chips and it was delicious. There is also something here called mushy peas. These are basically mashed up peas. They look like green mashed potatoes. Ben and I don’t like them but they aren’t horrible. We did some walking around and that was about it. Newmarket is about 10 miles away from where we live.

Thurs 23 April

Our household goods arrived today! We’ve never lived on base and we forgot that we had to let the movers onto base. We kept waiting and waiting and they finally showed up. They had to call someone Ben worked with to get them onto the base. It really sucks not having a phone number. We are working on that though.

Wed 22 April

Today we had our house inspection. It was pretty funny because the lady giving us the “tour” said that since we had not been in town for very long it was going to take longer because she would have to explain some of her term for things. She called the trash can on wheels, wheelie bins. She also said the word ain’t, which I thought was pretty funny. We also have towel dryers in our bathrooms. These are series of stainless steal tubes that are linked together like a ladder. Steam is piped through them to heat and dry the towels. We told the lady that we had never seen anything like that in the states. She couldn’t believe that!

Tues 21 April

We attended an all day Newcomers briefing. The commander of the base really stressed that we take the opportunity to travel as much as possible. We are hoping that we will get to take that advice! There are a lot of British people that work on the bases. Ben and I were very confused about this but it was explained at the briefing session. In the states we have people that work on bases that are DoD employees. Here the UK has MoD (Ministry of Defense) employees that can work on the base. Makes sense considering this is their base.