On the road again

I haven’t been on the computer in 3 days . . . I think that might be a record for me. I’ve been having a secret rendezvous with our new Kindle. I thought that it would be just like reading on a computer and while I can read message boards, news articles, and blogs all day long on a computer, I can’t do books. It bugs. Maybe because when I read books I like to curl up on the couch or in the bathtub, and you can’t exactly do that with a computer. But this Kindle thing is amazing. It feels like nothing in your hand, but it reads just like a book. And I can still read in the bathtub. Win. Win. Win.

The bigger reason I haven’t been online is because we are traveling again. We are currently in Southern California for my sister’s wedding and while the hotel does have wi fi, there is a little human who has been particularly needy since we left. We were a little worried because our hotel is right on the train tracks (and right on the beach!), but no need to worry about the trains waking us up at night because the baby screaming very nicely covers up any train noise we might possibly hear. She’s so considerate.

Hopefully baby will feel better soon, I will finally get around to charging the battery in my camera, and Josh will pry the Kindle out of my hot little hands so I can get around to posting the last segment of our evacuation story. And maybe a few photos of the boys on the beach. But first I need to go grab breakfast before Josh comes back and unloads the baby on me.

In honor of the Egyptian people kicking Mubarak out . . .

my boys have on their Tae Kwon Do uniforms on and are doing a little butt kicking of their own.

 

These pictures are from our last week in Egypt when they were all practicing for their first belt tests.

 
punches
 

axe kicks — Caleb gets his leg way up there!

front kicks

blocking

tough guys can still be snugly
It’s a happy day for us as we celebrate the end of Mubarak along with the rest of Egypt. Josh and I wish we were there, cheering in the streets with the rest of the people, but the boys are going to a birthday party this afternoon with all of their old friends and I know they are happy we are here.
In other news, our car arrived in Egypt today. It is hanging out in the Alexandria port. Now we just have to wait for orders to Oman and they will then start the process of trying to retrieve the car and then rerouting it to Oman.

We’ll always have Cairo . . .

We may no longer have Egypt, but we still have Camille Cairo.

 
Trying on a special dress for Auntie Wendy’s wedding

 
bunches and bunches of tulle

 
I think she’ll be the cutest non-flower girl at the wedding

 
these guys already know she is

You heard it here first:

Oman — March 2011. That is the (current) plan.

ETA: I have no other details other than they gave us the go-ahead to apply for visas and to start the process of redirecting our car and stuff from Egypt to Oman. Combine that with the Mubarak resigning/not resigning game playing and our Egypt door has closed. I don’t actually have an opinion on it at the moment. I’m sure it will be fine. We have friends in Oman at the moment and from their pictures it looks like a beautiful country. I think I just don’t have the energy to get geared up and get excited about another country/culture at the moment. Been there, done that, and now I’m sitting on my parents’ couch, lol.

O Madiha, Madiha! Wherefore art thou Madiha?

Real life is getting in the way of blogging. Bah.

Clean laundry, waiting to be folded. Of course, as soon as baby or I put on an article of clothing, she pukes all over, so folding the clothes appears to be an unnecessary step. Actually even wearing the clean clothing is proving to be an exercise in futility . . .

I should just take the clothes from the dryer and add them to this pile

or this one.

Good thing she’s cute, cause she’s not winning any awards in the Easy department . . .