January Doings

Victoria Gardens

I want to start the post by thanking everyone who took the time to send us a holiday card.  We loved getting all the new pictures and family updates.  It’s always fun getting mail, especially here!  We appreciate the extra effort it takes to mail anything overseas (and figuring out how to address an envelope to us, took us awhile to figure out).  We loved hearing from everyone….thanks again!

Since the New Year, things have been relatively quiet around here.  The weather has warmed up, it’s typically in the 40’s and 50’s each day.  The only downside of the warmer weather is that the rain comes along with it!  I ran some errands yesterday only to come home drenched from head to toe from the random downpour I got caught in.  The joys of unpredictable, rainy English weather.

The sport of basketball exists here?!?!

Last weekend John and I decided that we needed to continue exploring Truro, so we decided to go for a walk in areas we haven’t been yet.  The sun was out and we took advantage of it by exploring all over town.  We came across some pretty cool finds a couple blocks from our place.  John was ecstatic to find an outside basketball hoop and court.  Basketball isn’t much of a sport here, so it was surprising to find a place to play.   We also found a pretty large community park/garden, which overlooks parts of Truro.  It made us realize that during our down times here in Truro, we need to push ourselves to continue to explore. 

Porthtowan Beach

This past weekend we decided to take a short bus ride to another coastal town called Porthtowan.  It’s a tiny village, but boasts some amazing scenery.  We started with some lunch at the beachside restaurant called Blue Bar.  The food was amazing and it was great being surrounded by lots of cute dogs, as it is a “dog friendly” place.  We then headed to take a Saturday stroll along the beach.  There weren’t a ton of people there, so it felt really serene walking along the ocean and checking out the area.  Definitely a place we will be visiting again soon!

How adorable is she?!?!

Some exciting news this past week is that John and I had a niece born on January 5^th to my brother Kevin and his wife Kaite.  I received a memorable early morning phone call with the news from a glowing father about the birth of his daughter, Sophia Kathryn.  We were lucky enough to be able to meet her over skype and talk with Kevin and Kaite about the experience.  They are over the moon and loving every minute of having a new baby in the house.  Congrats Kevin, Katie, Sophia and Wrigley!

January continues to look pretty quiet for us.  We are enjoying the down time and watching lots of movies (we would highly recommend The King’s Speech) and catching up with our favorite tv shows online.  It seems no matter what country you live in, January always seems to be a catch-up month from all the holiday busyness!  Hope all is well with everyone back home.