I do like our new city, the scene is pretty fun and I'm not homesick yet. I've done a lot of extended travel before so this move hasn't phased me yet. The other thing about our new life here is that it's very comfortable with all the usual creature comforts, so it doesn't necessarily feel farther from home (CA) than Madison did. It's when you have food poisoning in a third world country that you feel really far from home, especially when you have no family members or your significant other with you! Also, anywhere feels like home if Terry's here! :) I'll be seeing my parents in early Nov in Hawaii for my gma's 92nd bday, and then again when I go home (CA) in Feb-ish, and then again when they come visit in May, so that's really not any less frequently than when I was living in Madison. And I have 3 cousins and their boyfriend/wives/kids and an aunt and uncle in England who I'm very close with and am seeing at the beginning of Nov and then again mid-Nov, so I really haven't been feeling very far from family at all recently! I'm geographically closer now to any family while living here in Holland than I was in Madison! It will definitely be different spending our first Thanksgiving on our own without any family this year, but I guess that's just another rite of passage. Perhaps we'll find some other people from the US by then to have a Turkey Day dinner with??
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