Updates - May 2014

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry that I didn't post anything in April, but Jon and I were both very busy travelling and working.

Last time I was here, I spoke about our recent approval for our visa application. Well, the week after I posted that we received the hard copy in the mail, which we were of course very happy about.
We are now about half way through the next stage, waiting for our case number to come through and the go ahead to send in the next round of forms. From what our lawyers say, we are hoping that this will be by the end of May/start of June - not long to go!

At the start of April I had to go to the emergency eye clinic (near where I live here in the UK) because I was having an issue with my right eye. It's hard to explain what was happening, but it basically caused me enough concern that I went to my optician, they looked at my eyes, and immediately referred me to the eye doctor. I took my referral letter the following day (a Sunday no less) and was checked over by the eye doctor at the clinic. Although there is an underlying issue, it isn't anything to worry about right now, apparently. I have a condition developing that normally starts a bit later in life, that generally effects everyone. It's more to do with the ageing process and develops naturally as we get older. It's just for some reason, it has started earlier in me. You can imagine all the things that were going through my mind while sitting in the clinic, so I was relieved to hear that it wasn't cause for concern.

Jon then came over and we spent nearly 3 weeks together, 10 days of which were spent on a driving tour of some sights in Europe we had yet to visit together, and some old favourites along the way!
We started off by visiting some dear friends of ours in the Netherlands, in their home town of Hulst. From there we visited Amsterdam with them, and a place just over the border in Belgium, called Sint Niklaas. After 3 wonderful days in the Netherlands we headed down to Belgium, to the city of Antwerp. We were visiting good friends who live just east of the city, and again spent 3 days there. We explored Antwerp (although we had been before), and also drove over the border to Germany for a day to a place called Aachen.

From Belgium we drove to Disneyland Paris where we spent 5 wonderful days enjoying their Swing into Spring festivities.

Finally, last weekend we went to see the hit musical Wicked, in London for Jon's (belated) birthday present.

In less than 3 weeks time we are off to Tokyo for a week where we will of course be visiting Tokyo Disney Resort.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Dan.