Right after I posted yesterday, Josh sent me a message saying that the work vehicle we were using had to be returned — something about how the policy that allowed people moving to Bahrain access to a car for 30 days had expired and hadn’t been renewed. I’m sure the paperwork will go through eventually, but not in time for us. Oh well, 10 days is better than nothing. Josh looked into renting a car until the Montero arrives (it still hasn’t left Oman), but the rental company is charging $650 for a month’s use of a Toyota Camery-ish sized car and I’d rather have a latte every day for the next 5 months than pay for a tiny car that we’re all going to have to squeeze into anytime we want to go somewhere.
Besides, we don’t really have to drive anywhere right now. We’ve already finished our house hunting, there’s a shuttle that runs every hour from the hotel to the base and back, we can walk to a neighborhood full of restaurants near the hotel, and if we have to travel beyond that, then we’ll grab a cab.
Today was our first shuttle experiment — Caleb is panting because he runs up and down many, many flights of stairs every time we leave or come back to our room. He and Carter have started racing the elevator and they take off while we’re waiting and then they hit as many call buttons as they can on the way down trying to stop our elevator as many times as possible between our floor and the bottom.
Killing time, waiting for our bus . . .
The shuttle came and we made it to base in time for the movie. Free movies on base = cheap way to keep cool and entertained.
She takes her entertainment very seriously. At least for the first 10 minutes. After that she wandered around the back of the theater and climbed up and down testing all the seats. I could tell she was getting tired so I put her in the Ergo on my back and she slept through the rest of the movie.
And was still sleeping an hour and a 1/2 later when we met Josh at Taco Bell (in the base food court) for a late lunch.
Another day, another lunch with Dad. Since it was crowded we ate outside in the heat.
The nice thing about being close to base is we can still get together for lunch — even without a car.
