Our second week in England

So the second week went by....time really does fly. Not much has happen this week. Its been kind of boring actually. Sense our only focus has been on finding the house, we haven't done/seen anything, except last Sunday we saw castle and that was amazing. And of course all the country sites are beautiful!!!!

We have seen all that is available in housing our first week and so the second week we only saw about 4 more properties. However, we did find home in Biggin Hill and in Horshem. Both of them are about the same except one is a refurbish cottage home (they have 8 offers on that one) and the other is just nice home in the country side. We have put offers on both of them and it is going through referencing (that's what they do here, it is a process similar to buying house in the US) I guess it takes up to 6 weeks to do it. Hopefully, it wont take that long. Though, us not having any UK credit history makes a bit tricky.
If all goes well, and land lord accepts our offer and conditions then we can move in to the cottage on the 5th and to the house on the 18th. Hotel, sweet hotel!

Speaking of hotel. We have been fortunate enough, to have room across the biggest(and the only)room in the hotel. And so one day we saw it being cleaned and we have requested it. Though, it is for handicap people, they have given it to us. Thank goodness. Now we have 2 double beds and a sofa...Feels like luxury! Though it is still small, we are grateful for better accommodations. Our kids have become fans of Star Trek and are watching it religiously every day. We can't believe they actually love it. We have also found some great parks in here and we try going there to let kids get their wiggles out. Sense getting a bigger room we also got our suitcases with us, before that, they were at John's house, and we were just recycling a few outfits over and over again.It was kind of a pain.

Being in the hotel this long has it's privileges. The stuff, really gets to know you and they are super nice. The manager told us we can do our laundry here(which is supper good, for we did elsewhere once and it cost us 24 pounds/$35 for two loads, that would of cost us a lot to do it weekly.) And some one else is doing it for us.(hotel policy) which is totally fine with me. We get all the extra towels,pillows,blankets and we get to keep our iron unit (which is fantastic for me, if you know me)The stuff has really got to know us, and they are really nice to us.

In the main time Troy has been looking to a 7 seats car to buy. It's not going to be anything fancy, just to get us from point a to point b without putting us over board financially. And then we will have to completely furnish our home. Dishes, pots, beds/bedding, curtains....you name it, we will need it. Which sounds like it should be fun (especially for a girl) but I am NOT excited about it (limited budget, and for temporal use) I have been looking at IKEA, and second hand stores on line, and some other household goods store, that someone told us about, that is kind of like IKEA. I hope we can do it within reasonable amount and make it look cute and homey.
Well that's about it! I know, not exciting. But, I think once our house situation is figured out, we will start taking advantage of England (in the good way). It cost 10 pound each time you drive to London, so we haven't been. And even if you take train/bus by the time you add up 6 of us it cost about the same. But we will have to go soon, for my immigration crud. I can't wait! For London, that is!
Talk to you all soon.