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Oh Netherlands, you may just be my favorite so far. This little side trip was divine. We had lovely hosts, Robert's sister and her family. This was our first trip in which we rented a car. What a difference! This let us explore so much more than what a train limits us to. </div>
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Our first stop was Delft...</div>
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Our visit to the Royal Delft Factory... </div>
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Sunday we attended Church...<br />
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... and swung by The Hague Temple on our way to the town.<br />
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The Hague had a pair of fun museums: The Escher Museum, with tons of famous art, and The Louwman Museum, containing over 250 antique and rare cars. <br />
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Scavenger hunting...<br />
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A visit to Zaanse Schans was delightful :) We learned how to make chocolate, wooden clogs, and cheese. We toured a working wood cutting windmill that let us get really close. Like right next to the moving blades. Like stepping over the logs being hauled into the blades. Like walking down the ramp where the logs are floated in to. Gotta love the excitement with the lack of OSHA!</div>
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Our trip into Amsterdam included a visit to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh museum, and a canal boat tour.<br />
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We did our usual thing; upon entering a room, the kids were free to look at whatever they'd like. I would call them over to see anything super significant that I wanted to make sure they saw.<br />
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Tyler: "Mom, Jack could paint that."<br />
Trey: "Seriously, it's awful!"<br />
-standing in front of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers". Like, THE Sunflowers. That Van Gogh painted. Van Gogh! Ugh! Twits.<br />
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I tried to prep the kids as none of them have read the diary. It was lost on them, until we visited. The Anne Frank house was humbling. Hopefully they remember this.<br />
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East India Trade Company came through this way :)<br />
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Ending the busy school year we had a Galileo exhibit by Trey, a portfolio presentation by Jack, and a final choir concert from Bailey. Looking forward to a fun summer and exciting new school year!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-60332979988333810862014-06-28T06:40:00.001+03:002014-07-01T05:33:44.737+03:00Paris, FranceWell, Paris in the springtime is indeed pretty darn lovely...<br />
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...and tasty.<br />
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We stayed in a perfect Parisian apartment that put us in walking distance from the Louvre.<br />
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My kids do museums well. They really do. But the Louvre is a small city. A small city with random renovations not indicated on the museum maps that prevent patrons from completing a loop on any single floor. It wouldn't have been a problem had the museum in full working form not resembled Hogwarts in terms of inconvenient stairways. We did manage to hit the highlights including a few geek opportunities for me.<br />
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"The Seated Scribe". Seriously. Made me giggle with delight. This little guy (much smaller than I imagined) was even better than Ms. Mona for me. He's kind of a big art history deal.<br />
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Notre Dame was a treat for all of us.<br />
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Yes, play young ones. I'll just sit and admire the perfect example of classic flying buttresses. I tried explaining the importance of these. No luck. Didn't care. <br />
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We had a 24hr spot that needed filling. The lovely capital of Belgium, Brussels, was a fun pick. We had very specific lodging needs: Close to train station. Close to tour bus stop. Luggage drop. Easy right? What I found was sort of a hotel/hostel hybrid. A detail I failed to mention to my hotel snob husband. We arrived and I checked in with a slew of several young, bubbly, 20-somethings behind the desk. I turned around to see Robert and the kids huddled in the lobby with wide eyes. We were there with everyone in Europe between the ages of 18 and 25 but it was great. It really was. Not many hotels(that we usually stay in, at least) let you play sock soccer in the hallways and have super modern bunkbeds. <br />
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Touring...<br />
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Brussels has this fun little stop. This giant atom sits outside Mini Europe, a quick walk through each of the European Union countries in miniature scale.<br />
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Can you find them?<br />
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We now totally get the hype. Belgium waffles are divine!<br />
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A piece of the Berlin wall.<br />
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Manneken Pis. My children were quite amused.<br />
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This gorgeous square is home to Brussels' famous Flower Carpet.<br />
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As this will wrap up the posts of our recent holiday trip, I will share some Italian observations...</div>
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Italians LOVE cigarettes and dogs. I can't tell which one more, only that they are both equally more present than I care for (which would be not at all if I ran the world). We ate at food trucks, casual diners, finer restaurants, and museum cafeterias. Our best meal was spaghetti with homemade sauce courtesy of Robert in our Rome apartment. The loudest sound in the Sistine Chapel is " SHHH! NO PHOTOS!" repeated over and over by large disgruntled security (although a glance upward and everything else melts into oblivion). That being said, we loved our trip.</div>
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Rome, our final stop, was even better with kids. Robert and I were here several years ago with my dad(tour guide extraordinaire) via a visit to my parents while they were in London. Rome provides a lot of hands on history. I don't think it's on purpose necessarily, more that there are so many ruins everywhere that they just left a bunch of the lesser pieces laying around. It's pretty neat to run your fingers down the carving grooves of letters inscribed thousands of years ago. </div>
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Our first stop was the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and the Palatine. </div>
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The Trevi Fountain was just down the street from our apartment.<br />
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The Spanish Steps were so close to us we ended up passing them half a dozen times during our stay in Rome. They're just down the street from Piazza del Popolo in which the kids "rode" the famous fountain's lions. <br />
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St. Peter's from the Villa Borghese.<br />
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The Pantheon. Our walk to this also sent us past Piazza Navona and it's Christmas market.<br />
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Castel San't Angelo<br />
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Circus Maximus. Not captured in photo was the attempt by the four to recreate a chariot race using each other as horse and rider. Still fun to run it imagining being chased by armored men with spiked clubs. <br />
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The Mouth of Truth. <br />
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The Baths of Caracalla.<br />
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Ice Skating near the Vatican.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">I've seen some pretty amazing things on this trip and on others. It's always fun to see in real life what I've only seen in books. I've never been disappointed, but sometimes, it's WAY cooler than I imagined. Two sites on this trip exceeded my expectations. The David (really, it's glorious!) and Pisa. It is crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The grounds, the Field of Miracles, hold 4 main sites. The baptistry, a cemetery, the cathedral, and the bell tower, which stands a little crooked :)</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-35986684321568897982014-01-05T19:53:00.003+03:002014-07-01T05:37:08.269+03:00Florence, Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First off, THIS was the view from our private roof top terrace in Florence. </div>
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Our first day we settled into our apartment and went out in search of a market. Our route took us past this, the church of Santa Croce. Buried here are Michelangelo, Rossini, Machiavelli and Galileo.<br />
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Our route conveniently took us past a little neighborhood park which was just the right size for a game of tag.</div>
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A favorite of the kids' was the Galileo museum which had some cool stuff but the highlight was the display of three of Galileo's fingers. Creepy.</div>
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The bust of Amerigo Vespucci. </div>
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And Galileo.</div>
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Beheading of Medusa. Popular with the minions.</div>
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This cathedral was too fun to take pictures of.</div>
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Ponte Vecchio.</div>
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While I got a lot of great pictures, some of the best sights we're not allowed to be photographed. So, not of my own doing, here are some of the amazing pieces of art we saw...<br />
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<span style="color: black;"> In planning this trip, Venice barely made the cut. I kept hearing the words "Venice is a giant sewer" go through my head. Ultimately I decided it was now or never and it became the first stop on our winter holiday. Good plan! This place is AMAZING! After settling into our apartment which was right on a canal just across from the Frari church, we started exploring the narrow winding walkways of Venice. We found a local market and stocked up on a few necessities and enjoyed all of the perfect canal views and bridges. </span></div>
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The "Bridge of Sighs" named by Lord Byron. The bridge connects the interrogation rooms of the Doge's Palace to the prison. This bridge provided the last view of Venice to the convicted as they crossed over. We walked it on our tour of the Palace and the very extensive tour of the accompanying prison. </div>
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While we didn't take a touristy gondola ride, we did need a trip along the Grand Canal. After a day at St. Marks we took a Vaporetto back up to our apartment. It was a fun way to see a lot of Venice. </div>
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One of the best things about our trip? My kids now get to say "I learned to ice skate in Venice". We found this square just around the corner from our apartment and spent an evening here. All was well until Robert started collecting discarded snow from the sidelines and started pegging the kids with snowballs. With much dignity, he crouched next to me when the kids retaliated. </div>
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The Frari Church, directly across the canal from our apartment.</div>
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Not willing to part with perfectly good sodas we'd had in the apartment, Tyler hauled these bottles from Venice to Florence. Dedication. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-77985344630700785452013-12-06T23:10:00.001+03:002014-09-03T11:52:01.145+03:00Our Angel's 12th Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks, Brenners, for setting up his tree. It looks great...<br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="color: black;">Trey made the 4th/5th grade soccer A team! As one of only 1.5 Americans, one of only 3 4th graders and the tiniest player in the whole tournament, he helped his team win 1st place against teams from all over the country. In the 6 games the team played, he allowed only 1 goal against them.</span> </span></div>
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Right after the final whistle of the final game...<br />
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One of Trey's teammates is the son of this guy, Raul. As in Raul one of Spain's greatest soccer players ever. Really. Goals in the world cup, Real Madrid, awesome soccer player. He now plays for a local team. He'd come out to watch his son and they invited him to award the medals. Trey just giggled when he saw him. At one point Raul found Trey and asked, "So, best keeper ever, huh?" I guess he'd heard LOTS of soccer talk around his dinner table like we had!<br />
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Bailey was part of the joint choir that sang at ASD's 25th year Anniversary hoorah. </div>
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In what can only be called the "worst cinematic experience ever", I managed to record the two songs they sang. Focus on the loveliness of the music, not so much on the picture. It could possibly cause nausea. Bailey is inconveniently located on the bottom right side of the choir body behind the timpani players (in the ASD song, that timpani player is Matt Merkley for any Kingwood Stake readers. Bailey spent the evening flirting with him apparently. Awesome. He's in high school.)<br />
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First, some pre-dinner play...</div>
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Then, a fabulous traditional Thanksgiving dinner hosted by our wonderful neighbors, Haifa and Nabil. Yum!</div>
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Of course we celebrated at school as well... <br />
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Trey's school Thanksgiving craft. I am thankful for a confident child :)<br />
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100 dhow boats docked in Doha for a local festival to celebrate the history of these boats. They were used by Arab sailors, traders, fishermen, and pearl divers and are now celebrated as the tool that has progressed the region. The venue was Katara Cultural Village. The place is stunning. These Qataris don't mess around. They build some pretty remarkable things. </div>
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Brits were REALLY confused.<br />
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So they offered to teach the Americans Rugby.<br />
My boys are now REALLY excited to join the local league.<br />
Somewhere Papa Ririe is smiling.<br />
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The kids made a new friend today. It's taken us 3 months, but we finally got them on a camel. Here in Qatar the camel population is doing quite well. We pass pens of them in random locations, race tracks for them, and of course we can always pick up some local camel steaks at the grocery store. Seriously. Not joking. </div>
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Mingling amongst the crowd, and camels, were a bunch of ponies. Like the camels, you could hitch a ride and the lead would walk around aimlessly. It is actually a fun way to do animal rides. No lame circle tracks, animal poop surprises all over the field where families are congregating... No, no, no. There was an army of workers armed with black trash bags to quickly remove any bio hazard material. Chemical Company. They know safety. </div>
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Mechanical bull. Way to go little Texans! I wonder if this even makes sense to anyone else.<br />
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This is the best I got from my 12 year old. In his defense, he was up early for a basketball tournament. We quickly found the food table and he was all better.<br />
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Bailey's first henna flower. Rite of Arabic country living passage.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-21421400637233604562013-11-15T20:02:00.002+03:002014-09-03T11:53:19.199+03:00Thou Shalt Not Covet......Thy Daddy's Boss' Bentley.<br />
Pretty sure that's how that commandment goes.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-90981903409073109182013-09-14T23:26:00.002+03:002014-09-03T11:53:39.666+03:00Good DadAt 5:30 in the morning on the kids' first day of school I was headed off to the driving school to take my road test.<br />
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Robert had to cover the first day of school mom duties including the oh-so-important first day pictures. Not bad, dad...<br />
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They're off to a great start and loving their new school. Jack will be starting soon. Woohoo!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-64866647092833487782013-09-14T22:34:00.002+03:002014-07-01T05:42:53.555+03:00A Letter...<br />
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Dear Grammy,<br />
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We know you start thinking about Christmas gifts about this time of year and we wanted to help you out and make a few, well, four, suggestions. We did our research because we're responsible grandkids. These cars are REAL! They are made of steel with rubber tires and run on gasoline. We're pretty sure they have seat belts which is good because we will definitely be safe drivers. They are a good price at only 90,000QR ($24,000USD). That is WAY less than a full size version.<br />
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You have a few months to consider this. Just being helpful :)<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Your lovely Ricker grandchildren<br />
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Let the record show that we WERE NOT the most unsafely loaded vehicle on the road. Big 'ol SUVs here tote a dozen kids bouncing about like popcorn. This is particularly horrifying as the roads are about as safe as a piranha bath.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-37630878169808762002013-09-14T21:31:00.000+03:002014-07-01T05:43:43.126+03:00Our First Qatar ExpeditionWe've been here now 6ish weeks. It's about time we start exploring!<br />
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About an hour north of us is the little town of Al Thakhira. Our quest? Find the mangroves.<br />
The best I could do were directions from a couple of different random blogs. They contained things like "go right on the second round about past the Indian saloon and then go until you see a curb and then take the second left onto the semi paved road which leads you to the mound in the sand where you go straight through the gap in the wire fence". Now, we've been in Doha long enough to have this make some amount of sense as nothing is adequately identifiable without a good amount of adjective support. Needless to say, we went, ran out of road, turned on the 4 wheel drive, and prayed we wouldn't get stuck.<br />
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Well, good thing we didn't get stuck, lost, buried in quick sand because there was no one around for miles! <br />
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So, the mangroves. The mangrove ecological function is considered the 2nd most productive ecosystem in the world. It's job? Absorbing CO2. It is protected and endangered with 70% of the coastal mangrove forests here in Qatar depleted.<br />
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Mangrove trees produce these...<br />
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...Which then fall into the soft mud below and start to sprout...<br />
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...into these little trees that begin popping out of the clear cool water.<br />
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On our way back into town (i.e. paved roads and such) we stopped here at what I can only find called Bandit Cliffs. Fun to play Wild Wild West, or, eh, Wild Wild East?<br />
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Sandy, salty, and sweaty, we headed home.<br />
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Working on updating the blog layout and cover picture and needed our WHOLE family represented :)<br />
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Makes me smile :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552076280062289900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817232590256824711.post-12463025255214675452013-08-29T13:40:00.001+03:002014-09-03T11:54:50.790+03:00Doha UpdateI know, I know! Still no pictures. It's just that 1, we still don't have wifi here in our villa as we are still waiting for residents permits that allow us to be real people here in Qatar and I refuse to follow the 54 million steps to upload pics without wifi and 2, we live on the outskirts of town meaning a giant sandy, dusty oasis, or as Bailey likes to call it- "beach without water" (aka desert, but whatever Bailey) and up until 2 days ago I was carless so I only went where I absolutely needed to since the taxi/whole family combo was not so fun. The point of that enormously huge run on sentence is that other than some great poolside pictures of the kids, we really haven't done anything that has merited a snapshot. I mean, yesterday on mine and Jack's venture down to City Center we passed the Corniche and Gulf (or whatever that body of water is there) however I dare say we both would have died terrible, awful deaths had I tried to both drive amongst the locals and snap a quick picture and noon in August in a dessert is not as pleasant as one might imagine so I felt no desire to pull over for some sight seeing. <br />
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So what have we been up to minus pictures...<br />
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As well noted, I now drive! Driving tests are an interesting process culminating in having your name announced followed by "pass" or "fail" as you walk through a crowded room to collect your papers. It is no small blessing that I passed both parts of the thing on the first try. So far I have not been bumped, crushed, or trampled which is super exciting considering the number of roundabouts I go through each day. They're fine until you glance through one of your mirrors and then you realize you've entered the vehicular Hunger Games. We need Robert to, uh, pass his test this time since he'll have is RP before me and then we can purchase a car or two. I'm in the market for at tank.<br />
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School orientation/meet the teacher was Sunday (Friday here is the Sabbath). Because of the grades, we arrived (by taxi) at 8:00am and were there until 4pm. Despite the tremendously long day it went well and prepared the twits well for Monday. Trey and Bailey are in classes close to each other. They both chose to study Arabic. I opposed the idea until a friend of ours said that on their family's trip to Jordan their 3rd grader read all of the signs for them. Fine, Trey and Bailey. But I'm expecting some Arabic usefulness in our future travels! Next week they start the swimming unit in PE. Good timing as they are going through withdrawls after this summer's swim team experience. They have a bunch of elementary intramurals they're hoping to play.<br />
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Tyler really didn't want to like the school. He really wanted to be miserable. He instead really enjoys it. Middle Schoolers are divided into 5 houses (not chosen by a sorting hat. Lame.) Already he's got some house pride and has made some friends. He'll be issued his personal laptop today. He also is doing a PE swimming unit and has found that he is really a great swimmer. <br />
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Jack will hopefully be attending pre-k at ASD sometime soon. We just turned in an application for him last week. Poor foresight on my part. We should have done it when we did the other kids earlier this summer. Until school starts for him he'll hang out with me and we'll do some Mommy School. He has yet to sleep in his own bed (usually ends up with Bailey), has overcome his intense fear of swimming, has finally made it through primary without falling asleep, and has learned to tolerate strangers touching his little round blonde head. He's an awesome kid.<br />
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We have gotten our air shipment. Packed primarily with toys chosen by the kids, I was really happy to see them quickly empty the boxes...to play with the boxes. I would have shipped way more kitchen stuff had I foreseen that! Twits. We did, however, get lots of storage boxes, some linens, and the contents of Peyton's trunk (the actual trunk comes sea). We don't have a lot of things still, but we've got a 4 foot manatee!<br />
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Just yesterday Jack and I bought a kitchen table so we can stop using the giant table in our dining room. Today I sharpied up a big dry erase board to make a command central calendar. It's especially useful now since we can't all share calendar items (ugh, wifi). Slowly but surely things are coming together. <br />
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