We had a great first weekend here. We had a lot of grand ideas of heading to Paris, but when saturday came both me and my little lady were exhausted. A couple days of crazy sleeping and no naps for her made for a very tired 2 year old. So we decided to have a day of just playing at the park and reading at the library.
The night before we headed into a beautiful town called Aht, which is about 10 minutes north of Chievers, the base we are staying on and Rob works at. It has a beautiful city center. People were walking their dogs, sitting having a beer, visiting with friends, it was so fun to people watch there. We sat down at one of the restaurants and graised the menu... Realizing that we didn't know any of the words besides jamon (ham), spagetti, and escargot. So I just picked a random thing of the menu, Rob choose one the jamon dishes and he also ordered an escargot. After trying to speak to the waitress rob and I quickly found out that; #1 She is not understanding Robs broken French and #2 When I try to speak French I end up speaking Spanish?! Which is not helpful for any of us! Need less to say.. we are lucky we even got any dinner ordered. When our meal came we were anxious to see what we ordered. I ended up ordering these meatballs in red sauce with a salad and french fries (always a side dish here)... the meatballs were very good. Rob got this ham on the bone with french fries and a salad, which he was pumped about and then we got the escargot. I took Allies plate and put some ham, meatballs, french fries and escargot on it. After tasting them all Allie looks up and says "yummy, I want more of that please." pointing to the plate of escargot. Rob and I look at eachother and laughed. Out of all those choices our 2 year old choose the escargot :) Rob then had to fight over his escargot with his daughter. After a very enjoyable meal we walked to a cute icecream shop for some ice cream cones. Rob discovered an amazing flavor called Speculaas. Its a type of cookie from here and it was crushed into the ice cream. Mmm it was good. A successfull first night in town.
We enjoyed a slow saturday at the library and playground. We met up with a couple we have met here at the hotel that also just got here from the States and cooked out with them that night for dinner. They have a daughter that has latched onto Allie and will be a great babysitter! I love to find those!
Sunday we headed out for church, but realized once we got to the town we forgot the address... so after driving around for 15 minutes we couldn't find the church so we headed back. We had a squadron function that night and got to meet a bunch of people Rob will work with. Allie was very excited to be playing with a bunch of other girls and toys! The people we met were all very friendly and accepting. Its always nice to meet people with kids that are around the same age as mine especially when Allie loves to play with them.
So now we are back to Monday. Thankfully Rob said he was going to head down to the housing office on his own so Allie could get some sleep. So he is there right now seeing if there are any new homes up on the board.... we found one house that we really like, but we are waiting to hear if we got it cause there was one family ahead of us.
Now if Jake can just get back in order, everything will be good. He has had a rough couple days. I think his stomach is a bit upset with him cause he is extremely gassy and poopy. Poor guy. He hasn't been sleeping great, waking up screaming in the middle of the night. Thankfully he only woke up one time last night so both him and I got a bit more sleep. Maybe today will be better.
House hunting we go......
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