Four Seasons

Each day it sinks in a little more that this is really happening, we live in Scotland.  I anticipated a wave of depression to hit me, but I am OK. The people are extremely nice and quite chatty, esp the taxi drivers.  For the most part its easy to understand the locals.  But over the phone, it's harder to catch what they are saying and has been a little frustrating.  I noticed that they don't pronounce the vowels whereas we enunciate ALL of them.  For example, they pronounce Pantene like "Pan-ten." Some of the differences are pretty funny.  It may takes years to be able to adapt their accent. Challenge accepted!

So we move into our new house at the end of April.  It was the second largest house and the best location. The house was built recently and modern, and it's 3-4 bedrooms, so plenty of space for visitors:)  Plus a lot of ex-pats live in the area.  Guess I will be having tea parties after all...

The weather here is very interesting.  Over a 10 minute period it will snow, rain, and then nothing but sun and blue skies.  The cycle repeats several times a day.  Its like four seasons in one day. I never thought it was possible for a city to beat Houston's inconsistent weather! I still get excited when I see snow falling, even though it doesn't stick.  Its consistently been in the 30's and 40's here, so I'm okay with not having to battle snow too.  Good luck to me getting Luca to walk in snow; I just got him used to walking in the rain.  The "summer" weather begins in June and promises to rise to the 50's and 60's. Yipee!

Next on the agenda is to travel within Scotland, see Edinburgh, Glasgow and the country side. There is a 5-7 day train that shows the country views and it takes us along the route used by the Hogwarts Express! It will be so cool to follow in the footsteps of Harry Potter:) We hope to start our travels in May, which is just around the corner.

Stay tuned!