Wearing Wellies

When the author and his wife first met,
life was a big blank canvas ready to be painted. After a
trip down the aisle, the purchase of the first home together
and the adoption of a dog to "test the waters" before wading
into the pool of parenthood, life started to become more
about to-do lists and conformity. Their big dreams together
began to start with the phrase "Someday we will..." With time
no longer on their side, "someday" became "today" when they
decided to leave everything behind and move 3,963 miles to
London, England, to learn more about the world, themselves,
their marriage, and what can happen when you find the
courage to take a chance and do something great. On the
surface, Wearing Wellies: A Year of Life & Love in
London is the story of chasing lifelong dreams of queuing
for Wimbledon tickets, greeting friends with kisses on both
cheeks, close and personal encounters with the Queen,
weekend trips to Paris, Italian cooking schools, and walks
through the Cotswolds while wearing wellie boots with a dog
named Sydney. But the story is really about life-changing
relationships that the author and his wife make along the
way with new friends who did not dress like them, sound like
them, or think like them.