*I have a camera and I try to take pictures, but sometimes we are moving by too fast, or they are moving by too fast or someone moves in front of the camera too fast....This is a busy city! Everywhere there is hustle and bustle...which makes my next comment so odd...
*Even though everyone is so active here, riding bikes, jogging, walking, etc...shops close at 5. How do people who work shop? It is insane when things close here. If it rains, they close down even earlier...uhhhh...it rains pretty much every day here. So getting a phone took me a few days due to my inability to figure out the times or what shops to go to.
*I still don't have my official phone as a phone plan takes a residency card which we don't have yet. So, I'm using a prepaid phone that looks like a toy. I'm not kidding. It's pretty funny. I enjoy talking on it because I look so ridiculous.
*My children are all in school. Parker is in school. They ride the school bus. The school bus is a nice van with a super nice driver. I feel really good about putting my kids on the bus, knowing they will be safe and happy and to school in 10 minutes...but my heart still manages to break every morning. Luckily, my heart is mended as parker leaps from the sidedoor into my open arms.
*We are living in a hotel. The Novotel Schiedam...it is one of a few hotels that have joining rooms. The others don't. We don't have air conditioning and in my old lady hormonal ways...this is bad for me at night if the wind isn't blowing just right through the open window...I can't sleep because I sweat instead. The bus picks them up from our hotel. As soon as we move the bus driver will change...I hope I'm just as happy.
*Parker has started pulling his pants down and showing his bum when he is unhappy with someone. He does it to his sisters and they reported he did it to a boy on the bus. He is subsequently popped on his behind every time...and yet he still persists. I can't help but wonder if the disney channel taught him this or cartoon network...the FORBIDDEN cartoon network.
*Housing...see my last post on the ridiculousness.
*Parking is extremely difficult to find here. Oh, it is available, but you have to pay for it. I don't mind paying for it, but you have to do it with a special card. You can't just put in coins or dollars, you have to have something called a chipknit. Without a chipknit life is pretty near impossible here. You even buy groceries with it. If you don't use a chipknit card to pay for your parking you get one of these:
Euro 80 ticket.
YIKES!
*They have beautiful trees, grass, windmills, sheep, cows, horses (I swear we saw some clydesdales the other day!)
*They have yummy steak here. REALLY! I was expecting cruddy steaks, but every single steak I have eaten has been well worth the price.
*Dinner takes forever to eat though and service is atrocious. I understand why people eat at home a lot here, because it sucks up your entire evening to eat out...
*BAD HAIR here...on everyones heads, but mine as well. I CANNOT seem to get it under control. Super frizz. I bought some new products yesterday so maybe that will help otherwise I will be curling my hair or flat ironing it into submission.
*Yummy cheeses. Weird Dr. Pepper. It doesn't taste right.
*Our first official form of ID here? Our zoo pass. Well worth it, well worth it! They have an amazing zoo here!
*There is a temple here
and it is not far from where we live. Now we just have to get a house and a trustworthy babysitter.
That is all for now...I will try to get the pictures off of my camera soon so you can see some.
1 comment:
Love it! You are going to have that place perfectly scoped out by the time I get there. Can't wait to see the ridiculousness. Sounds like a fun adventure. Not quite as adventurous as Doha, but fun nonetheless...
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