The O’Hansens have left London. I repeat, the O’Hansens have
left London. Why? Because Jefferson’s two year contract is up and after two years
– that really flew by – we are ready to try something new. London just wasn’t
for us, but there are so many great memories we’ll have from our time here.
We’ll miss the Wild’s the most – I mean, I practically lived
there half the time the first year when Jefferson traveled every other week –
and we actually did live with them the last two weeks we were in London. We did
so much with the Wild’s over the last two years and had so much fun! It was
especially fantastic to watch this little kiddo grow up from a tubby munchkin
to an adorable toddler.
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| Alfred and new baby Charles! |
He rambles on and on these days and most of it makes sense,
but the part I like the best is the last month he started to say our names.
They come out as more, “Kay-nan” and, “Jesh-shen”, but I’ll take it.
We spent the last few weeks in London giving away most of
our stuff, storing the rest (thanks, friends!), moving out of our apartment and
then moving in with the Wild’s for the last two weeks. We had
Christmas and New Years together at Chez Wild and we decided to really go for
it by making Christmas a Dickens theme. That meant funny hats and a goose for
dinner…which was surprisingly delicious!
For New Years, little baby Charlie felt the need to celebrate
his first NYE by being in the hospital with bronchitis and Sarah Wild was there
with him. The rest of us were home and had a mellow but great NYE celebration
of lost of food and hanging out. FYI Charlie
and Sarah Wild came home all safe and sound before we left the country!
Who are those other folks in the picture, you might be
asking yourself. Why that’s Matt and Jesy from the FriendShip! Our good friend
Cat, who we know from Chicago but lives in London now, introduced us to a
plethora of Americans and we six power couples call our chat group the FriendShip
(as in, ‘All Aboard the FriendShip’). We’ve
done cheese festivals together, tons of dinners, a wedding, bought a Danny
Devito cardboard cutout, Thanksgiving, you name it. Adam and I even posed in
the same way for our high school senior pictures. Twas a FriendShip that was
meant to be. We’ll definitely all keep in touch with these guys – and how could
we not? Look at us!
I’ll also miss my volleyball team – who I got to play with
for a season and a half. They were so much fun and really took us in as part of
the team family. Jefferson was dubbed the number one fan and given a t-shirt
that said so since he was at every single game and almost every single
practice.
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| GO DIVAS! |
So basically what we’ll miss the most from London are the people
that we’ve met. I’ll also miss the hummus at Waitrose and my wine fridge filled
with prosecco, but not as much as the people.
With Jefferson’s new-found freedom we’re writing to you from
Chennai, India and we’ll be here for one month doing a whole lot of not much.
Actually, we do have some plans, but more on that later. For now, Happy New
Year, everyone and we’ll talk to you soon!
