This morning a strange golden orb appeared in the sky over Puget Sound, (you can just see the snow-capped mountains turning pink in the distance, though they disappeared into the clouds soon after this was taken).
We also braved the horrors of Toys ‘R’ Us to buy something for the Minx other than the eight books we had brought with us on the flight. She absolutely adores it and finally stopped badgering me to put on Teletubbies DVDs, for, oh, several minutes. I was, however, somewhat perturbed to find her putting the baby doll to bed in the large double bed, the daddy doll to sleep in the cot and the mummy doll to bed in, er, the bath.
In the same shopping mall we came across a fabulous cookshop – full of all the impossible-to-find-in-the-UK American gadgets that Nigella is always mentioning. I will definitely be going back as soon as we get a proper kitchen here, so I can stock up on bundt tins in the shape of football stadiums.
And then, most importantly, we found a supermarket selling Green & Black’s Almond Chocolate, which is one of my favourite things in all the world. Things are definitely looking up.
That’s more like it, we should have realised shopping would be the key!
Shopping and chocolate.