Almost done living out of suitcases! Helsinki fun, too!

Well, we are out on the street on Sunday so hopefully we get keys to this place before then. It isn't your typical small english flat you might think of. 2 1/2 baths, 2 bedrooms-1 very large, reception room is very large, small outdoor space so we can have a small grill. There is 2 1/2 flights of stairs and no lift, though. We are right between Oxford Circus and Bond Street (shopping mecca!!! and dangerous!!) about 5 blocks from Hyde Park. We get our stuff Feb. 15thish, so until then we'll have an airmatress and that is about it. :( At least we almost have a home! You can get from Chicago to London in April for $350!!!! We'll hopefully get a cell phone in the next few days, you have to have an address to get a cell phone. You can try to call us on YahooIM or Skype, yahoo:snoonan08 or connor_noonan skype: chicagosmellgren1 (i've had this one for a while). Well that is my update so far. OH, wait I was just in Helsinki. Ate some reindeer and elk, had some fish, beer, saw a bit of the town. There was a sauna in my hotel room! The room, not just the hotel! That was pretty cool. I wish I could buy all of the nick nacks and funishing type stuff from there...very West Elm/Crate and Barrel/CB2 like stuff. I hope to make it to Sweden and Norway and load up with cool stuff.

Madrid

Hello All. Had a fast trip to Madrid last week. It was quite a process to take the train, took forever, get there early since I had to go through customs, it was actually fast. Then my flight got cancelled, nice, got on a later flight and missed my appointment and had to reschedule for the next day. I didn't have time to explore at all so I really saw the highway, my hotel, and the airport. Next trip is to Helsinki so hopefully I'll have some fun pictures of that!

We are still in the middle of finding a place to live and getting mobiles. If feels like it will be about another 3 weeks before any of this gets done. Our stuff is getting shipped so hopefully we'll have our own unpacking celebration! Wahoo our own stuff.

Sunday Roast and A Night Out of the Town

So we met up with a friend of a friend that moved to London about a month ago. She was cool and her boyfriend was nice, too. We went to a "club" and hung out for a while. Sunday we went to one of Connor's work friends houses and had "Sunday Roast". A very English thing to do, have a roast and drink all day. It was nice because although they were from Australia they just moved from the US where they had lived for many years. We had a great time and can't wait for more roasts!

We're Here, seriously it's not a tease.

So we have officially moved to London finally. We landed on January 2nd. We spend the freezing weekend walking around Notting Hill and Bayswater trying to figure out where we want to live. Of course Connor got picked up in a bar by an Austrialian on Sunday and he made us drink with him the day before our first days at work. Ha. I was gone to the bathroom for 2 mintues and he had moved tables and made friends. Our temporary apartment is nice, we can cook at least. It is pretty cold, I need my ear warmers! We basically work all day and then go apartment looking. The wire that hooks my camera to the computer seems to be malfunctioning so no pictures just yet. I'm going to Madrid next week for work so hopefully I'll get those pictures up.