Normality returns..sort of

Last week was manic! The car insurance company wanted $3.5k for 6 months, just for me to drive around in our new car on my UK license! So in order to get me insured for a much more reasonable price, i had to get a social security number and take a driving test to get my US license!
Sitting around in the social security office for 2 hours was painful enough, but when it came to taking my theory i was number 15 in the line and they are on number 50, (it goes back to 1 after 99)! Thankfully dave had done this the previous week and told me to meet him for lunch and go back in a hour!
Last time i did my theory in the UK they had just introduced the hazard perception test, so here i was thinking it was going to be similar.NOPE! You get handed a piece of paper with 4 sheets, and they are all multiple choice questions! Some of them were common sense, others were pure guess work!
Thankfully i only got 10 wrong, and they still passed me! I then had to book in for a road test... i was really nervous! I've always said if i were to have my test again i wouldn't pass, after 12 years of driving, obviously going to pick up bad habits! I had been driving around a little over here, but the roads completely freak me out. A shared left lane between both sides of the road to move into, turning right on red is the normal, and the cars are huge! Theres' very few single lanes here, so its all wider! Anyway, when it came to my test. The woman i had was treating me like i had never driven before.. granted my parallel park was awful.. but she did not do my confidence any good! Needless to say she failed me! I was distraught! What made me laugh was even though i failed, you still get to drive yourself home after! So i got on the phone to dave, cried my eyes out, and then plucked up the courage and booked another test with the person dave had the previous week.. and booked it for friday!! ..Oh yea.. on top of all this... for the test i wasn't allowed to drive our new car as i wasn't insured.. so twice we had to pay for a hire car!!

Thursday night about 11pm, Ollie decides to be sick.. all night long.. Thankfully dave can work from home, so i didn't need to cancel the test or the hire car. But the weather was awful! It was foggy and raining cats and dogs! With no sleep and horrible conditions on the road.. it felt like i had no chance! The instructor was much nicer, a lot more relaxed and even told me i was better than dave.. :D He passed me and all of a sudden the weight lifted from my shoulders! So then had to return to the Secretary of State office and get my license!!
All in all a long and hard process but we are sorted. We have got everything in order, and have even started the process to bring the dog over!

The weekend we went exploring and found some lovely walks. Sunday night i came down with the tummy bug and now Dave has it! Crossing fingers Lucas won't get it, but highly doubtful!

We are getting sorted with the house and routines. We have found a really nice area to take the kids for swimming and other sports activities. Dave has signed himself up for football...soccer..whatever!
Bump is coming along, 32 weeks this week! It certainly didn't appreciate me being sick! Made me miss being around my normal surroundings when i was poorly though!

Aside from the sickness, we are all good. The boys only have a week off, so going to venture out to see what is around! Might even buy a english easter egg that they are selling for $15!

Ta ra
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