Boo-frggity-hoo, the trip is almost over!!

Big news! Our trip around the world has become a trip around Europe and it is suddenly almost over! Boo-Friggity-Hoo!! Cry me a river!!
The family that has been renting our house for the last 2 1/2 years suddenly decided to move out! Quite a shocker to us! They have been there for 2 1/2 years and planned to be there for at least 3. They are a really nice family and have taken great care of our house. It's simply a matter of circumstances that occurred that requires them to move away. It killed our trip, but we understand their decision and wish them the best. Another way to look at it is that they just saved us a whole bunch of money!!
We certainly can't travel around the world while still paying our mortgage, and we don't want to put a new renter in with a one year lease because we will need the place back sooner than that. Besides, we moved away almost 3 years ago and we are now getting excited to get our house back. Suddenly we are thinking about all of the improvements we could make to our house with the money we are spending on this trip.
We were a little bummed out at first, but we're not going to feel sorry for ourselves after almost 5 months of an amazing vacation! Plus we still have some cool stuff to do. We just arrived in (of all places) New Castle, England. We have another rail pass to use here and plan to travel all around England, Scotland, and Wales. It's like our vacation is almost over, but we still have a whole vacation to go!
I'll keep blogging until the trip is over. Not exactly sure when we are going home, probably in 2 to 3 weeks. I still need to figure out why my little Chromebook is getting so bogged down when processing pictures. So no pics just yet.
Gotta run, have some exploring to do!!!