Having completed our first Ski Season in France and survived with only flesh wounds, we were determined to go one better.
So, after a summer spent with a well-known Company buying gold and making curtains (guess who did what), we applied for and got, a post in Colorado!
Really exciting and promising a wholly different experience with a lot more autonomy and control over our work, very pleasant owners to work for, and the prospect of waist-high powder snow and temperatures of -40 degrees F/C (interestingly the two temperature scales coincide at minus 40 - one for the Quiz night).
Having had to pay a fine because I forgot to SORN the car last year, this year we are equipped with 'A LIST'. This has had loads of things added and very few removed on completion, as is the fate of most lists, but we are fairly confident that come next Monday it will be completely finished (or completely ignored).
Medical insurance, US visa, cancel LoveFilm, order in the wood for whoever is in the flat, check out long-lost cousin living somewhere in Montana, put out the milk and cancel the cats, it's all such a rush!
We had a wonderful pre-Christmas meal with all the children and partners/friends at the end of November with a superb piece of beef, plenty of fine wine and excellent company. The crackers provided the cabaret as they held whistles of 8 different notes, requiring only a Baton (supplied ) and a conductor(me) to whistle our way murderously through some innocent Christmas carols and festive tunes. We will have to take them with us.
We now have a string of farewell meals ahead of us, final checks on the list, a pre-dawn spin down to Heathrow, and then it's look out Denver - here we come!
