Settling down in CT

Well, here we are, two days in and just getting our heads around the fact that we're here for good. Well, almost. Three years anyway.

The majority of our stuff is somewhere mid-Atlantic at present but we're hoping to be reunited with it sometime in the middle of April. At least when it arrives we'll be able to look forward to moving into our "proper" house. Don't get me wrong, the temporary accommodation is nice and more than adequate, but it will be nice to have our own stuff around us.

Ian's been off taking some nice pictures around the house with his new camera. There are some amazing views of Hartford from the two balconies, which you can see as the header above and in the piccies section.

We're wondering what to do with ourselves this weekend as it feels like our first weekend "off" for the whole of the year. So far it seems like 2008 has consisted of a mountain of paperwork, a lot of travelling and some fond farewells. What will we do with ourselves?

We've got a couple of company "pool" cars at the moment, like this one http://www.jeep.com/en/2008/grand_cherokee/, but when we get our long-term company car, we'll start looking at either buying or leasing another one as we won't be able to keep the Grand Cherokee forever.

Annalie's job is going steadily and she's just getting her feet under the table. The long days are bound to start pretty soon though! Ian's still not sure what he's going to do with himself during his enforced time off - oh to have the luxury!

We've joined a gym to try and make sure that the fabulous food portions here don't catch up with us. We've joined www.healthtrax.com after convincing them that Annalie works for Pratt & Whitney to get a discount! Who knows, maybe we'll come back even leaner than we left!