Post by Basket1lady on Oct 19, 2022 22:56:53 GMT
Hello everyone! I seem to keep derailing other threads, so I thought that I'd give an update here.
After 3 great years of living in Belgium, we have returned to the States. We are currently living in my parents' basement and will move into a house on the 1st of November. We decided to rent since interest rates are nuts and DH doesn't have a follow on job yet. I'm still hoping for a pretty house on the lake!
DH retired from the Air Force after 36 years of service. We had a lovely ceremony on base with friends and colleagues and other family and friends watching via Zoom. We celebrated with lots of champagne and pastries and it was a great day.
We then packed up the house in 3 shipments. One small shipment that went by air to my parents house, one to our DD who lives in the DC area, and one that was the bulk of our house crated and is currently on the boat in the North Atlantic. There's a 4th shipment that is in storage in DC and we may see it sometime around Thanksgiving. They are really dragging their feet processing that one!
After outprocessing from the NATO base, we took a ferry from Amsterdam to Newcastle and toured Scotland for 2 weeks, ending in London just in time for the Queen's passing and a Harry Potter weekend. We were literally touring Buckingham Palace when she died, but they didn't announce it until we were on the train going back to our hotel. We had heard that the family was rushing to Balmoral and suspected that it wasn't good.
We toured Edinburgh, Inverness, drove along Loch Ness to the Isle of Skye, drove through Glen Coe, and toured Glasgow. We stayed a night in the Lake District (England now) and then did a day of sightseeing in London. We saw the Harry Potter play and toured the Warner Brother's Studio at Leavesden. We ended our time in the UK in Canterbury before taking the train through the Chunnel back to Calais.
We picked Emma up in Belgium and then headed for Ramstein in Germany where we flew back to the States. We picked up the Jeep at the Baltimore port (we'd sent it ahead back in July), spent the weekend with our daughter who is in grad school in DC, and had a small retirement party for DH with old friends. We then drove back to Minnesota and went straight to DS's workplace where I finally got to hug him.
We've already had a family reunion, a big family wedding, and lots of family meals. It's still a little weird to be back in the States and in Minnesota after so many years, but it's wonderful to ring up family and then see them the next day. Especially DS!
After 3 great years of living in Belgium, we have returned to the States. We are currently living in my parents' basement and will move into a house on the 1st of November. We decided to rent since interest rates are nuts and DH doesn't have a follow on job yet. I'm still hoping for a pretty house on the lake!
DH retired from the Air Force after 36 years of service. We had a lovely ceremony on base with friends and colleagues and other family and friends watching via Zoom. We celebrated with lots of champagne and pastries and it was a great day.
We then packed up the house in 3 shipments. One small shipment that went by air to my parents house, one to our DD who lives in the DC area, and one that was the bulk of our house crated and is currently on the boat in the North Atlantic. There's a 4th shipment that is in storage in DC and we may see it sometime around Thanksgiving. They are really dragging their feet processing that one!
After outprocessing from the NATO base, we took a ferry from Amsterdam to Newcastle and toured Scotland for 2 weeks, ending in London just in time for the Queen's passing and a Harry Potter weekend. We were literally touring Buckingham Palace when she died, but they didn't announce it until we were on the train going back to our hotel. We had heard that the family was rushing to Balmoral and suspected that it wasn't good.
We toured Edinburgh, Inverness, drove along Loch Ness to the Isle of Skye, drove through Glen Coe, and toured Glasgow. We stayed a night in the Lake District (England now) and then did a day of sightseeing in London. We saw the Harry Potter play and toured the Warner Brother's Studio at Leavesden. We ended our time in the UK in Canterbury before taking the train through the Chunnel back to Calais.
We picked Emma up in Belgium and then headed for Ramstein in Germany where we flew back to the States. We picked up the Jeep at the Baltimore port (we'd sent it ahead back in July), spent the weekend with our daughter who is in grad school in DC, and had a small retirement party for DH with old friends. We then drove back to Minnesota and went straight to DS's workplace where I finally got to hug him.
We've already had a family reunion, a big family wedding, and lots of family meals. It's still a little weird to be back in the States and in Minnesota after so many years, but it's wonderful to ring up family and then see them the next day. Especially DS!
So glad you’re back with family now.
