Friday, June 5, 2009

Pictures so far.................





Jonathan's parent's got here last night and will be spending a few days with us. I went on an Oxford bus tour with them this morning and got some great pictures of the city. Todays weather is a bit more typical Oxford weather-raining and colder, I guess it has to happen sometime. 

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Day 2


The girls and I went with Gayla to the open market yesterday, I bought some little tomatoes, strawberries, cherries and a cucumber. It is so fun to mingle with the Oxford locals. Walking every where is such a different pace of life than what we are used to and we love it. Of coarse it NOT being 95 degrees makes that fun, I am not sure what the temperature has been but I would guess it is in the 70's (no TV for us either).  Also we went to a few shops and Ashlyn found some great cloths at a second hand shop (my little smart shopper) haha. At the end of day our sweet friends from Abilene got to our place (Michael, Susan, Barrett and Ethan Lewis) they are going to be in Oxford for a few days while they finish up their stay in the UK. So fun to hang out with them-  we talked and ate Cadbury liquid chocolate and cheese and crackers (Jonathan says the cheese tastes like it has vanilla in it-BUT it doesn't) I think drinking all that Diet Coke has finally ruined his taste buds!! 

The Stewart's are in Oxford England!!!!

I have created a new blog to document our 2009 trip to England. I can't promise it will be entertaining or even worth reading but if you want to see what is going on with us for the next month you can check here.
We got to Oxford on June 2nd, The first day we moved into our living space which is on the 2nd floor of house 9. Here is the funny thing, in England they call the bottom floor the ground floor, the second floor the FIRST floor and the 3rd floor the 2nd floor. But I do not care what they call it I have been climbing 3 flights of stairs quite often and I have tired legs at the end of the day! haha, maybe they will be in better shape by the end of this journey (in spite of the chocolate and bread I plan to eat while we are here).