London, UK, just in time to ring in the New Year!  (If we have any energy left, that is!)  For the moment, we’re just delighted to be stable and in a lovely new place to live.  The house we’re renting here is beautiful and a vast step up from our tiny apartment in Spain.  (Pictures soon, hopefully.)

Now, for dinner.  Ah, the delights of speaking the native language.  You can ask the nice people on teh Internets to bring you food, and *poof* Chicken Tikka Masala at your doorstep.  Just like that!  Oh, the heady decadence of the modern age…

It’s 11:30 PM here in Madrid and Susan and I have finally finished handing off cats to shippers, packing, cleaning crap out of fridge, sending stuff back home or ahead to London, freaking out, printing airline tickets, double checking, having dinner, cleaning dishes, triple checking, repacking, yelling at local ISP, watching some unwind TV, yelling at ISP again, and taking out last loads of trash.  Whew!

We’re leaving behind miscellaneous bits of trash and stuff that’s more weight than it’s worth to carry.  But we’re taking with us a huge load of experiences, memories, new people, and bits of a new language.  It has been a stressful phase, at times, but a wonderful one overall.  We both agree that we’re excited to be off to London, but we’re also terribly sad to be leaving here.  In many ways, it seems like 4 months is only long enough to make a start.

Now for a shower and sleep.  Tomorrow: London!  Watch out UK, here we come!