1 Day to go...

So here we are, the final 24 hours before we fly out to Sweden to begin our new lives... well for the next 2 years anyway! It's been manic since the last post as you can probably imagine. I've been to Sweden for a week working, the whole family have been to the Lake District for a vacation and we've had more goodbye/send off's than we probably deserve, but it's all been great fun. Somewhere in between all these things we've also had to find time to pack and ship our life over to Sweden... to say we just want to get over there now and get started would heavily understate how we feel at the moment.
The week in the Lakes was a great distraction from the pre-move build up. We had a fantastic time with Laura's family and our only regret was that we couldn't spend more time there. On a more personal note I also wish I was a lot fitter so that I could manage to take Isabelle on one of the fell walks! We even purchased a baby carrier backpack to help with getting her around (little legs don't travel as quickly as we'd like) but a 2 stone child that wants to stop and talk to every sheep that we saw... and we saw a lot... doesn't make for an easy walk!

Still we caught some sunshine, got a little exercise and sunk a few cold ones at the end of each day. We all love visiting the Lake District and hope to go back soon.

Following the Lakes was the removal company fiasco. We were ready, all packed and prepared to ship out our furniture. I'd booked the day off work so that I could be there to make sure they didn't forget something important (just imagine if they forgot the TV!) and on the afternoon we find out that they are running late... 1 whole day late! So I have to book another day off work to wait in for these guys to turn up and take our stuff. Luckily the weather was fantastic on both days which softened the blow but still, you'd think they would have known earlier on the first day that they wouldn't make it to Birmingham at all. Maybe this is the sort of laid back Swedish mentality that we need to get used to?!?!

Finally this weekend we've been saying goodbye to our family and close friends. Needless to say, there were a lot of tears and I hope that everyone keeps their promises to come and visit.We would love to see you all out in Sweden (not all at once of course!) and will make sure we have a room available for your visits. We really appreciate all the help and support of the last few weeks and know that it is never nice to say goodbye. So instead I think we'll leave this post with "See you soon" - We love you all (you know who you are) and look forward to welcoming you to Fagersta.

Love Ben, Laura and Izzy x