Last week was SO BUSY!! The week ended with a family get together on Sunday. My two brothers and sister-in-law came over and we stuffed ourselves silly with chinese food, celebrated birthdays and my retirement and wished my oldest brother luck as he left for the east coast Monday morning on a well-packed motorcycle.  Yes, he's almost 65 and he's making a 2000+km motorcycle ride! We do love adventures in this family!

I spent Monday at home, recuperating, and then got back into the thick of things today. Tomorrow is another retirement dinner that our school board puts on at a swanky hotel and then Friday we're having a party at my dep't head's house. I think the weekend is FREE!

Once the family get together was over I gave myself permission to begin planning for my trip east!! YAY!! The list is pretty long! I've never had a will before so before I leave Kazi and I are heading to the lawyer's to get a will drawn up in addition to giving her power of attorney.  If anything happens to me (and eventually something will) I don't want her to have any problems accessing my accounts etc.

Dougie the Dodge needs to go in for a once over and an oil change. No, I haven't started packing up Dougie yet but there is a portion of my dining room given over to holding the things I'm planning on taking. I'll take pictures soon. I've been slack the last few days in taking photos - when that happens you know I'm BUSY! Must make that appointment tomorrow! Time is quickly running out :)

Yesterday I worked on going through the many storage bins I've packed to check for things I need to take east with me. I found my electrical adapter, thankfully,  so I can keep everything charged up when in England.

I also found the genealogical information that I want to re-familiarize myself with over the summer. For 3 days I'll be exploring Norwich and surrounding villages, namely Dickleburgh, where my "Chilver" ancestors lived .....

...in this thatched cottage. It no longer exists but Dickleburgh is quite small so I'm going to wander the streets holding up the photo to see where it fits in!!! Great idea huh? I'm sure it'll work. There's a pub, the Dickleburgh Crown, so I'll take the photo there too and see if anyone is old enough to remember any Chilvers in the area. I'm definitely not going for the beer. Yeah, right :) !!

Today was a nice day at work. Each day that is left is packed full of things to get done, like report cards and packing up - the time is just whizzing by. Tomorrow - 15 days left!

And now - supper! Me and my toes hope you had a great day and that wherever you are the sun was shining brightly :)