A week away that seems like sooo much more 🙁

Simon says it is great to be back and he has missed the family big time this time around.  Possibly since he was out in California, looking for a potential new town in which the family will live shortly.

Also, while he has been away Gregory seems to have made a massive progress following his operation last week – incredibly he is already home relaxing in more comfort.

Simon found plenty of places to NOT live in (that was the plan before you start laughing), but he actually found several places that he thinks that we could live in. The location can be no more than 45 minutes from the office, and given the 1hr 40 minute ride to get to a colleagues house up the East Bay, the entire East Bay appears to have been written off.  Plus the South Bay is 30 minutes nearer the beach !!!! 🙂

The current shortlist is as follows:

•  Los Gatos

•  Los Altos

•  Palo Alto

•  Saratoga

There are others, but these ones stick out presently.  Los Gatos is Simon’s current preferred although as he was looking for a place to park the car (to have a walk around the town, sorry City 🙂 centre, sorry center 🙂 ), he saw the town’s ONLY car dealership – they had Lamborghini’s, Aston Martins, Ferraris, oh yes, and get this – a Bugatti Veyron !!).  Something tells us that the town is a LITTLE out of our reach 🙁

He is also seriously considering a hybrid vehicle – a Toyota Prius – Jesus just WHAT is happening to the man…..

Time is literally flying by.  Simon heads out to California this weekend (well, Sunday) for a week where hopefully among his work stuff, he will get an opportunity to have a very high level look around the area in South Bay, and will search for advice from the various people in the office etc.

Hopefully we will have more information on the subject in 10 days time such that we are better placed in the decision making process 🙂

We all wish you a very happy birthday.

Amazing just how quickly time is passing us by.

We have been out bowling today with David, Julie and Abbie – Simon’s idea and he is definitely suffering as a result – not really sure what he was thinking – he is only just getting to be comfortable and he decides to risk it.

Risk it he did, and split the wound open he also did 🙁  He probably won’t be making smart suggestions again for a little while.

So the pain that he claims to have been in for the last ten days (apparently like the aftershock of taking a kick in the pills) has all but gone, only to be replaced with the pain involved in splitting the incision open.

With a little luck, this wound will fix itself in the next couple of days and he will be fighting fit again v soon.

In fairness, he has to be since he is heading out to San Francisco next Sunday for a week to do some work stuff and to spend a day having a quick look around.

The plan as we have worked out this weekend, is to go out for a family vacation in early February to figure out where we would live etc if we were to head out there.  Hopefully this week will help rule in / out areas based on a quick visit from Simon.

OK, so we have some improvement again thankfully 🙂

Simon has stayed at home since Monday this week, and now finally on Thursday evening, he is beginning to feel reasonably OK.

Monday was just a mistake with going into the office.

Two weeks ago, we had some family photographs taken – the first few have come through – please take a look in the gallery – we will add to them as soon as we get the goods through, so keep checking them out 🙂

We have included a few of the larger family photos we had taken in Halifax the day previous – great to see all the 4 generations 🙂