(Almost) settled in!

It's been almost two weeks since we got the keys to our new place! It was certainly the experience trying to rent an apartment while having no UK credit, previous addresses, etc etc. The leasing agency was nice enough but everything seemed to move at an absolutely glacial pace. Thankfully we only had to spend a couple of days in a hostel during our first week of work, and now have had time to get everything set up and lovely :)

Pending the hanging of a few IKEA shelves and the arrival of some small boxes of knick-knacks from Florida our new place is almost complete! Haven't taken pictures of it all set up yet (it needs a bit of a clean-up before it's ready for pictures) but here are some photos of us getting things unpacked and all that fun stuff.

We've now been working for 2 weeks and both like our jobs and our new bosses. City life is slowly growing on Austin the country boy :) More to come soon as we continue to explore the area, meet new friends and colleagues, and enjoy the new (and occasionally slow-paced) experiences of life in the UK!

we got the keys :D

Our first meal of frozen pizza on a cardboard box!

Ikea, cart 1 of 2

stuff everywhere ...