Adventures of an American girl in England

So as of today we have been here for a month and 8 days. Things are getting a little better everyday. We finally have our internet up and running, our home phone is connected with unlimited calls to America, and my house is almost clear of boxes.
The differences between America and England are immeasurable. Here are a few that have really caught me off guard.

~NO WAL-MART!

~No McDonalds (within 20 mins)

~Driving on the other side of the road (it may look easy in movies, in reality not so much)

~Portion sizes are tiny compared to the States

~Alot of the British despise Americans (on the 4th of July, they were outside the gates of the base protesting us telling us to go home)

~Our landlord loves Americans

~The closest thing we have found to Wal-Mart is a car dealership. We rented a car from there, found our house, bought Allen's Audi, got our American car converted to English specs, and got our lisence plates from there. As close to one stop shopping as you get here in England.

~How much I miss home. I never thought I would want to be in NM as bad as I do right now.


~ The sun doesn't go down until after 10:30 and it is up by 4:30

~The weather, there have been 2 days that it hasn't rained

~The commissary has BUENO GREEN CHILI! By far the happiest day I have had since arriving here.

~Porn is free on Sky TV after 7:00pm

~ Kids are allowed to curse, and F**K is not a curse word, it is just another word.

~When I have the baby, I will have to stay in the hospital for 3 days (this is for a normal delivery)

~BT(British Telephone) is a monopoly and everyone here is okay with that!

~Everything is so EXPENSIVE!

I am sure as time goes by I will get used to these things, but right now everything is pretty new to me. I have so much more to write but I will close for now and write more later.