Mushy Peas & Gravy

What do you write when you first start writing a blog? This is the question we are asking ourselves right now. It's been just over a month since we got married, and just under since we left good ol' Ashford to migrate northwards....yes, to the land where chips are served with gravy, where there's a meat pie shop on every corner and where everyone calls you "duck" or "lovey". Yes...the NORTH. Although it sounds terrifying, it's actually been quite pleasant.We're happy to discover that gravy doesn't flow out of the taps instead of water as we had previously thought and that more than mushy peas are sold in the supermarkets and there are actually lots of really nice country parks. We went on a really nice walk to Yarrow Valley Country Park yesterday which is right by our house. It was really nice. Here are some photos.

We are happy in our new little apartment, we finally get to live together! Woo! :D We've been settling in quite nicely.  It's been a lot more work than we had expected...the whole moving into a new apartment lark. We keep discovering that we need various things, right in the moment when we would need them. Have you ever tried peeling potatoes with scissors, cheese knives or a bread knife? We wouldn't recommend it. It's worse than an hour at the gym! But as we slowly accumulate more and more household items, our apartment is becoming more and more of a home. Not that it's all about household items mind you. It's about a lot more than that.

We are really happy that we get to spend so much time together. It's great, starting and finishing the day with the one you love. After over a year of having to be 300 miles apart and seeing each other only every 3 weeks or so, and even then only for a few days, being able to always be together is brilliant. We can do all the little things together that we were so excited to do for so long. Things like going running together, cooking together, shopping, studying, just being in the room together when we are both doing separate things. It is so fun! 

Seb has been very busy with work at the MTC and university. There is a new group of missionaries in and they are just starting to learn German, which is always a laugh. Uni is also busy and requires a lot of time, which is a bit annoying when we just want to hang out together all the time. People laugh when he says he is bitter about the fact that he has to get up early for uni because we can't be together but it's a serious matter, we want to spend every second together! 

We like our ward. It's really nice. We like all the people. Dan was called as the faith in God assistant last week. She's really happy about it. At church yesterday it was basically the Dan & Seb show. During sacrament meeting, we gave the opening and closing prayers, both were asked to share our testimonies and Dan had to stand up for her calling. Then she woke up to a text this morning asking her to give a talk next week so...watch out Chorley 1, there's more to come.

True to our selves, we're busy planning lots of fun things to do this year such as multiple day hikes in the Lakes, going to Italy, Switzerland, France and some other countries, and our Kilimanjaro trip. We actually booked the tickets to Kenya a few days ago so...that one is definitely happening now. We're really excited and there will be much more to come about all that.

So yes, we're happy. We're healthy. We are loving life! If you belong to the group of people who we would miss if we didn't see for a while.....we miss you.

Stay tuned. We'll be updating at least once a week so, if you want to see what's going on in our lives, you know where to come.

.....to this blog....in case you were actually still wondering.

Dan & Seb :D