Hey all, I hope you had a great weekend. Enjoy your warmth and sunshine! I now appreciate it and wish I had more of it!!!

Jamie and I had a very adventurous Saturday. We picked up the rental car in the morning and spent about 1 hour trying to get to the IKEA that is about 10 minutes away. It was very unnerving driving but we did not kill anyone. After successfully completing my first roundabout I started to get a little more confident but thank goodness I had Jamie!!!! I could not have driven and tried to figure out how to get somewhere at the same time! It took all my concentration to stay on they left side of the road! I can't count how many times Jamie said with a quivering, frightened voice "uhhh, honey... uh... you are in the other lane...." It's funny but you have a tendancy to stray over to the left side when you are driving and end up covering 2 lanes without realizing it. I eventually got used to it and we went to IKEA and the big grocery store, Sainsburys, and I bought salsa! It is in this tiny little jar from El Paso and was in this tiny little Mexican section....hmmmmm.... definately need to buy salsa when I get home at Christmas!

We then went to Leeds castle, which is in Kent, not Leeds (thank goodness I found that out or we would have driven 6 hours looking for a castle that didn't exist!) The castle was on a very beautiful area and it even had a hedge maze. That was excellant! We then came home and had dinner at a pub called "The Spreadeagle" :)

Sunday was less exciting. I followed Jamie to the airport and said goodbye. Very heartwrenching, I won't go into details. I decided to cheer myself up by going shopping! I went into London and got off at Covent Garden. The first thing I wanted to do was go to the Doc Martins shop there, well low and behold..... it is no longer there. My day already sucked and now it was worse. So I wandered around and actually found ways to spend my money. I know hard to believe, but I was able to do it.

So this morning my shipment came!! It is at this moment strewn all about the flat waiting for me to go home and put it all away...so off I go!!!!