We've made it here and are all doing well! We've had some wonderful people help us get acquainted with our new city. We still need to find an apartment and get accepted at a university to study. Finding an apartment here seems to be more complicated than we imagined, hopefully there's something out there that will work for our family. We'll start looking later this week. Hopefully the realtors will show us what they really have, not the things they are just trying to get rid of!
The local people have been quite friendly, and they especially love to try to talk to Emily. They'll pull her out of our shopping cart or try to pick her up if she is walking around the store. She's getting more comfortable with all the attention and though sometimes shy, she'll say "bye bye" to everyone. The department store workers will play with toys with her (in our view) while we check out the children's department. Today a bakery lady tried to give me her umbrella when she saw me leaving the bakery in the rain with no umbrella. Very sweet people.
There are many things here we didn't expect to find, so that has been comforting! Even good ice-cream.... you know how much that means to the pregnant lady! Dreyers Cookies and Cream and Rocky Road, as well as Magnum bars which are very tasty! :)
The only piece of furniture we've already bought is a crib- which Emily is using now, and Aubrey can use soon! :)
The weather here has been nice. The sun has come out quite a bit, with nice lightning storms at night!
We've all been healthy since we arrived and we're sleeping well at night. We do a LOT of walking during the day and will be glad when Emily is a little older and can do the walking by herself!
Right now we don't have internet at our home... so communication is spotty at the moment. It may take a few weeks more to get that set up. There are a few coffee shops around town where we can go to get a wireless connection, so we should be in touch every few days or so. We also have friends who say we can come to their place if we need to get out some communication... so please send us emails! We'd love to hear from you!
Pictures to come soon... I forgot the camera this time.
