Recovery Weekend at Home and a Tour of Our Flat

It's been a weekend of recovery, bargain shopping and learning to navigate Leeds - our new home for the next six and a half months. The Leeds Market is less than a mile away and full of fresh food and cheap goods of all sorts. Darrick and I splurged on a few kitchen items since we're cooking in almost every night. Now, we've got ourselves a cutting board, a colander, a plastic spoon and a third pan. Come on over and we'll cook you something from the local market :-)

I'm starting to feel like myself, again, and thanks to the Leeds pharmacist, my eyes are no longer infected and goopy! I truly have a new outlook on life. And we've paid our TV tax, so we're no longer hiding from the BBC TV tax enforcement van. 

Darrick and I got out to Roundhay Park (only a 10 minute bus ride from our place), today, and walked around one of the largest parks in Europe with David and Clare Price. The park is really beautiful and incredibly expansive - full of dogs frolicking off leash, large lakes (freezing as we speak), forest trails, a giant grass ampitheater, a folly (a fake castle), and so many paths to explore! I can't wait to go back! We had soup afterwards and watched some of David Attenborough's documentary on Africa, before riding the bus back to our place. We're planning an early dinner at our local pub, tonight, before it's back to work (back to Goole), tomorrow.

Darrick just finished the video of our flat if you'd like to take a tour, MTV Crib-style - http://youtu.be/Asci9yVF30I