Last year my husband was contacted by a company he used to work for about a Pension Fund he had invested in while he was employed with them.  It seems that he had become fully vested in this fund and they wanted to know if he wanted to receive this money.  He had quit working for them in 1993 and this was 2012 and the fund became available as of 2008.  They told him he would receive a lump sum check at the first of the year and a small monthly check for several years after.  The first week in July Steve got a check from the company and he said,

"We're going to England!"

You might ask, "Why England?" so here's the rest of the story.

When we lived in Seattle we met a couple from England who became very good friends.  They have since returned to England and they have visited with us several times over the years.... always asking us to come visit them over there.  Also, Steve's family is from England and his Uncle and Aunt had been over there and found the ancestral home and so he wanted to visit and go see for himself.  Me..... I just wanted to travel.

When we made the decision to go we contacted our friends, the Johnson's, about visiting with them and they were as enthusiastic as we were.  We decided to go for a whole month and really see everything we could.

The Johnson's