Day 365: What a year!

One year ago we had just arrived at Albany NY airport on one-way tickets. Our luggage (6 suitcases and a hold-all) was still in Newark NJ and as a result we would hang around the airport waiting for it to appear and then waiting to report its absence for some time. Eventually the four of us - well 5, but E5N1 was only making his presence felt in a abdominal way - got our hire car (unnecessarily large as it turned out - since we never needed to get the four of us and our luggage in it at the same time) and drove a mile or so to our first night as residents of New York state.

By the time we collapsed into bed it was midnight local time (5 am in the UK) - Exile #4, still wearing nappies (definitely not diapers) was used to a long daytime nap and 12 hours night-time sleep. Instead she had totalled maybe 2 hours since 7 am UK time that morning. Still, at 4.15 am the girls woke us up - apparently full of beans and ready to go. by 6.30 we were having breakfast and by 8.30 we were at a nearby park hoping to kill time until the first flight of the day from Newark brought us our luggage (we hoped). In the end, even the mild (for January) New York weather was enough to drive us - hopelessly under-equipped for anything other than sitting on planes and in airports - to bring forward our appointment at the house that would be our home for six months. The rest, as they apparently say, is history.

The history is here for all to read. Here are some of my favourite posts (for a variety of reasons) - if you have such things, feel free to share yours - and if those pop puns ever made any sense to you don't forget you have until Monday night to get your entries for the PPPQ in.

January - Day 2
February - Day 35
March - Day 66
April - Day 88
May - Day 119
June - Day 162
July - Day 179
August - Day 212
September - Day 249
October - Day 285
November - Day 301 and Day 310
December - Day 336