We have had a lot of things happening around here! I would have blogged earlier with everything, but our Internet service was out for almost 5 days....very frustrating! Being so far away, the Internet is our ONLY connection with home. It serves as our line of communication via email and via our Vonage phone. Our Vonage phone is amazing...it allows for us to have a Louisiana telephone number all the way in South Africa, no international fees!
Well, back to the good stuff! We have a new "country club" member, Taylor. I got him a membership to our local golf club, and he played nine holes with his friend this past Friday(without parents). He also went to a game farm this weekend with some kids from school, for a camp out birthday party. More firsts for Taylor, he played in his first cricket match this week and really did good. You know you love your children when you find the most boring sport in the world exciting, because your kiddo is playing it! Taylor continues to make us proud, he really has embraced this new life and has welcomed all of his new adventures.
The rest of us had a little less action packed week. Claire has perfected her bike riding, and can be found most days pedaling away on the tennis courts(remember our house is surrounded by walls, and tennis courts serve as a huge concrete playground)! Pat and I snuck away for our new Saturday morning ritual..coffee and shopping adult style! We are trying to explore some of the older antique stores, we found a gorgeous oil painting that is now hanging in my dining room(dirt cheap)! Hunter also had a good time playing and hanging out, the weather has been gorgeous. Only problem is ..it is making the angels really hard to keep from kissing him, and making all of these new freckles.
We unfortunately have been also perfecting our "Goodbye" skills, we bid farewell to Pat's boss and his family this week. They are headed home to The States after being here for two years. They have been instrumental in showing us the ropes here in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; and made a scary move a little easier! Farewell Rick, Diane, Brendan, Austin and Delilah.....Port Elizabeth will never be the same!
We luckily were able to welcome some new guests in our home, two girls from Finland! They were here with their traveling choir, and we were their hosts(scary)! I am sooo glad we did this, it was so fun to have them in our home!
Looking forward to this weekend... Christmas card picture taking(leaving this to the professionals), celebrating one year of being foreigners(not sure what's best...one year closer to going home or one year full of adventures), and Taylor is helping with his classmates First Communion Mass.
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