For these first two weeks we are staying in a hotel while we wait for our house to become available. Instead of a regular hotel room, we have a 2 bedroom suite with a living room/dining area and a separate kitchen with a washing machine. No dryer, but there is a huge drying rack and the clothes have been drying really quickly. It’s like we’re in an apartment instead of a hotel which is nice because the baby can nap, the kids can play and we can each have our own little space and not feel like we’re on top of each other all the time.
This is the view from one of our windows. There is a girl’s school right across the street. They start at 6:45am. Of course the only reason I know when they start is because I’ve been waking up at 4:30. Normally 6:45 and I are not close friends. The ocean is right behind the buildings in the background, but you can’t see it in this picture because it just blends into the sky.
We’ve been getting up early, going to breakfast around 7 and then spending the morning in the hotel while Josh does paperwork/check-in stuff at the embassy. The boys have been drawing, reading, listening to audiobooks, and doing some math while the baby naps. In the afternoons we’ve been exploring, and for dinner each night we’ve eaten with different embassy families and have made some new friends.
We’re having fun making ourselves at home in Oman, but we can’t wait until we can move into our house!
