Finally!

Finally our shipment is here!

Wow...hard to believe we have been here 4 months now.  Life has been fairly normal on camp when compared to home.  It actually feels like we have stepped into a time warp and gone back to the 50's or something.  The kids play outside for hours at the park , even after dark, and you don't worry about them like you do at home.  Only a fall from the equipment would be your biggest worry.  Halloween was super sweet too.  The kids got to trick or treat safely....go in peoples houses, and accept homemade goodies as well.  Our neighbors even baked cupcakes and cookies and the kids got to decorate them with cool frosting like booger green and mud :).  It was great.  Thanksgiving was shared with other Americans here.  We had turkey with all the trimmings and a mountain of desserts along with our feast!  I guess I never realized how much Thanksgiving is such an American holiday until being here.  It was just another day for most of the people and I even had some ask me what it was all about.  Good thing I knew my history!  I have made friends with people from all over the world and so have my daughters.  That has been awesome.  Mahala is in 1st grade and is loving it.  Piera and I keep busy with FOLKS(friends of little kids) which us Moms get to have coffee and adult conversation while the kids play for a couple of hours.  It meets 4 times a week and she loves it! She has often made friends with other little ones and they had the best time and neither one could speak the others language!  Too funny.  If only all us adults could get along like that the world would be a much better place.  I have found the ladies here to be very sweet and lovely people.  It is very cool to be a part of their world because Roger cannot mingle with them the way I can.  I have enjoyed talking with women from Pakistan, Egypt, Kazikstan(not sure how to spell that one), Romania, New Zealand, Ghana, and African countries as well as the UK.  Oh, and get this....they love MY accent!  How funny is that?  We usually think they all speak so eloquently and now I find out I have an accent to be coveted! I am looking forward to coming home at Christmas and expressing my new accents I have picked up.  Watch out everyone, you might not recognize me when I bust out my new voices. haha   See you all soon and fire up the BBQ's cause it's been a LLLLOOOOONNNGGG time since I 've had some!