23 October 2010

We Made It!

After 7 weeks apart, Brad and I are now living in Texas. We're renting a house close to base and it is starting to feel like a house since everything was delivered on Thursday (finally). We spent the last two full days marathon unpacking and organizing, and we were able to go grocery shopping for tonight's first 'home-cooked' meal in this house.

San Angelo isn't so bad, Brad likes it a lot more than I do. I didn't think I liked California that much until I left, and now I really miss taking our dogs to the dog park (none here), going to Trader Joe's or Whole Foods (none here), going to pretty much any style of restaurant (BBQ, that's about it) and drinking reasonably clean/healthy tap water (none here). We've had to start stocking up on those 2.5 gallon jugs that sit on our counter and pour out of the tap because the water here is like Mexican water - it will make you sick if you drink it or cook with it.

We experienced a real Southern storm today - thunder loud enough to shake the windows, tons of lightning, and flooding! Our neighborhood was so flooded that I had to have Brad drive to pick me up down the street, and by looking outside right now you couldn't even tell that it rained at all! Crazy...

This is a picture of our house, and the water level is half way up the fire hydrant on the corner behind us. The water went up to just below the car doors! San Angelo will definitely take some getting used to...