Every day is a school day...

We feel like we are learning something new every day here. So many parts of life you just take for granted because that is how you've always done something. We find ourselves questioning even the smallest things that we always thought were just normal.
We're really enjoying our time here. Kelly went to work last Tuesday and has been getting used to having a full time job again. She really likes the lab and is excited about the project so it's been good for her.
Last Wednesday night we drove down to London with Kelly's lab for cheap curry. It didn't make that much sense to us to drive 45 minutes with gas being $8.00 a gallon (yeah, it's over 1 pound per litre!--that would make people come up with alternate transportation in the states) to get curry cheaper, but it was a fun outing and nice to get outside of Cambridge. We only saw the outskirts of London though, so soon we'll take a weekend and do London properly.
Friday night we went to the pub with Kelly's lab and then Kelly got to go dancing with a couple girls from the lab. Cambridge is very much a University town, so there is quite a bit of night life here.
We did decide to tell our landlady that we are going to move out of the house that we are in now. She of course was fine with this and said we could move whenever we found something and didn't have to pay any rent at all, so that was really nice of her. Ryan has been spending a lot of his days looking at places, so we're hopeful that we find something we like. We're looking at the one we really want on Sunday, so if that works out we'll move soon. Moving would still be quite an easy process since we only own a couple suitcases each worth of stuff out here.
Here's some pics from the last week:

Black swan along the river Cam

Kelly's new bike! (or cycle, as they're called here)

Ryan has been keeping very busy with finishing the cleaning of our house, looking for cycles, looking at potential houses, doing grocery shopping and all errands on foot, and doing the laundry and hanging it to dry. Dryers are apparently a luxury item here. Most people have a washer and then hang to dry. Everyone has a laundry line outside which we can't quite figure out since it has rained about 60 percent of the time that we have been here. Ryan went to a job fair downtown today and has applied for a couple jobs, so hopefully something will turn up soon.