The front of the townhouse where 'da boyz' live

A typical bedroom (this one is mine)

One of the bathrooms

My bathroom (not too shabby)

Our oven

Our kitchen table

The entertainment center in Jordan's room

The sunroom (and Dan)

The back yard from the back door

The backyard looking towards the flat

Here are some pictures of our apartment. It's pretty nice. The problem with pictures, is that you get hardly any sense of scale, but whattaya gonna do? I am really pleased that we got such a nice place. The bathrooms all have slate style linoleum on the floors and tile on the walls and showers/tub surrounds. Everything is brand new. We figure this place is only a couple of years old. The plants in the back are on an automatic sprinkler system. The oven is electric with a gas range. All the bedrooms have nice sofa style chairs in them. The beds all have comforters.

Yesterday, we came in at about three. We had to meet our new landlords at that time and we barely made it. Our train got stopped for about thirty minutes about a mile from Oxford. We showed up, got settled, and went out to get lunch and groceries.

They have a lot of ethnic resteraunts in Oxford. Some of them are pretty cheap, too. We found one place that has doner kebabs. That was my favorite food in France and when I took my first bite it was every bit as good as I remember. I'll be going back there often. (They also have cheeseburgers and fried chicken at a decent price.)

It looks like the three Mormons will be riding bikes. It costs about the same as a bus pass and it will be more mobile than the bus. Bryan and I walked to church today, it is about 2 miles away and a bus doesn't really go there. (We could take a bus into town, then back out to church, but that would be lame.)

Church was awesome. They had an old school missionary farewell. The Brethren have asked us not to do that kind of thing, but the comments that the father of the missionary made were awesome. He was a british guy (there are a lot of American students in the ward, potentially more than the members who live here) who served a mission 30 years ago. He told his kid to read the Book of Mormon and all of the basic advice, but he had a good spirit about him. I have always enjoyed the faith of the European Saints.

We have yet to encounter air conditioning in this country. Our apartment doesn't seem to have it. The church didn't have it. Our hotel room didn't have it. It's hot here. London was raining, so it wasn't so bad, but yesterday and today in Oxford were really hot. We're a little confused as to why these folks don't adopt the whole air conditioning way of life. It's really hot. They need it.
Tomorrow we will be heading out to buy some fans. (I'll be keen on the lookout for a Walmart.)