Between the dog, the kids, my sister and Jeremy in town, and Josh taking several days of vacation I haven’t made time to blog. What we’ve done hasn’t been particularly adventurous (except for eating out with a squirrely two year old) or exotic (except for our Iftar feast in the tent at the Gulf Hotel), but we’ve had a great week.
Tomorrow Josh goes back to work, Wendy and Jeremy leave, and the kids and I will try to get back on track in the remaining seven days until school starts. We’ll have new routines to learn, an earlier start to school, an extra creature to add to the mix, and no Lucy to help out. I also just realized that since we don’t have our shipment I have none of their lunch boxes, school supplies, normal clothes and shoes, and probably a number of other “necessary” items. At least I’m good at improvising and I have 7 days to “make it work.”
A short recap of what has gone on this week: kinect tournaments, swimming in our backyard pool, visits to base (for movies and food), drives around the island to check out both the beauty and the graffiti, an evening at Al Bandar resort for swimming, eating, and competitive water bottle finding, a trip to the mall for people watching, sweatshirt buying (the A/C here is freezing!), and Turkish food, staying up late and sleeping in (except for those on dog/kid duty), and lots of eating out at our favorite restaurants. Ramadan Kareem! (Happy Ramadan)