Wooosh!! (or, good riddance, little flat)

Well, this time flew by just as we knew it would! Only one week left. I admit we're pretty sad about leaving, but so excited to see everyone.

The things we will miss about London and this fantastic experience are numerous, and we have a long list in the works of our highlights. But here are the things we will think of to make us feel better when we look back with only rosy colored glasses and wish we could jet back in an instant:

-The tiny mattress and its poky, poky springs
-The shower that fills up with water
-The 4.5 hour laundry process. That is, if the washing machine isn't taken (there's just one for the whole building)
-Unreliable, SLOW Internet for which we pay £5 per 3 GB of memory (and has made posting here much more difficult!). We call the "Internet guy" daily to ask him to reboot it. We're pretty sure he hates us.
-Hitting my head on the corner of the kitchen counter in the middle of the night (this continued about twice per week)
-Soaking my pillow while washing the dishes
-"Come in, have a seat. You may sit here (little table), or here (little bed)."
-Lack of oven, freezer, counterspace, space space
-Watching movies at night with the laptop propped up on a wobbly tower of books

We could go on about chateau Miller. Nicholas wanted to add "inconvenient tube closures on weekends" and I'd like to add "not having more than one suitcase's worth of clothes to wear" (and no, I didn't shop...) but we otherwise just pretty much can't wait to be out of this glorified dorm room. It's a wonder we are still happily married (don't worry, we are!). But these little adjustments in our lifestyle have been well worth every day here, and it's just the kind of adventure we were seeking out when we made the decision to come. We feel so settled in our little neighborhood and routine, and have made some wonderful friends who we will miss most of all.

Tonight, I made Texas chili in honor of Nicholas' last night of paper writing. So proud of him for getting it all done; he worked hard and got a lot out of his courses here. The hotplate performed admirably, though it's probably also something I'm not going to miss too much back home.

And we wanted to send a huge thank you to my sweet mom for helping us make this place a little more comfortable, as well as bringing the chili fixins all the way from Texas. She's truly the greatest and I couldn't have picked a better one myself.

xo,
lmm