Our One Month Move-aversary

It is hard to believe that we moved here a full month ago.  In some ways, it feels like we've been here forever, but this time has just flown by so fast!  Below are a few things that make me feel like this is actually home!

We Have a Lease on a House!  We picked a beautiful house right in the center of town and will move in September 1.  More on the house in an upcoming post

We Have a Car and Can Drive.  I have posted lots about this already, but hooray for the freedom of the road!

We Have a Gym: The Brits do not seem to be super into the gym, so this was more of a struggle than expected. We signed up for Gambaru - which is very close to the center of town, but feels like a muscle gym.  There will be another gym opening near our house later this year - Pure Gym - we'll be switching to that gym soon.  Certainly a long way from the days of Vantage classes, personal training, and Pure Barre...but it will have to do!

We Know the Grocery Stores: We have visited all of the big grocery stores here - Marks & Spencer (sort of like Trader Joes), Asda (owned by Walmart), and Waitrose (like Harris Teeter).  Our new house is across from Waitrose, so I have a feeling that will be our go-to grocery store.  In other good news, there is a Costco in Leeds that apparently carries the same stuff as the one in the US (woo hoo!).  I do love eatting out, but it's been over 6 weeks since we cooked ourselves a meal.

We Built a Travel Itinerary: We have big trips planned for every month through the end of the year.  It's nice to have things to look forward to and be able to take advantage of living in Europe:

• September - London
• October - Venice 
• November - Munich 
• December - Barcelona 

I am sure it'll feel even more like home once we move into our house, receive our furniture, and make more friends, but I think we have a pretty good start for a month!  Here is the sneak peek of our house...for those following along, we picked house 3!