ANYways...
We left Tuesday night around 5:45-in a car that came and picked us up. We flew business/first class so we got to hang out in the lounge where we watched a movie on Justin's laptop and got the girls in their pjs. On the airplane, we got two of the middle seats (see my terrible 'paint' rendering below):
Solia and I took one, and Justin and I took the one in front of us (which was actually closer to the back of the plane, since the middle seats faced backwards).
We took off around 7:30 and by 9 Amaia was still awake-even though I'd drugged her with antihistamine. She watched some movie with Jusitn while we ate dinner on the plane and I worked on getting Solia to sleep. I pretty much fell asleep as soon as I was able, and slept. When I woke up we still had a few hours (and the girls were out) so I finally got to watch Eclipse via the in flight movie thing (you each get your own personal screen).
We got picked up at the airport (after getting our 8 items from the luggage belt!) and driven to our first temporary living apartment. This place had two floors and 3 bedrooms. We just hung out for the weekend, spending time playing our Xbox (that we of course put in the suitcase) and walking around some stores nearby (including a gelateria that had a-maz-ing ice cream). For Thanksgiving we....did nothing. Didn't even go out-we ate frozen dinners. Which doesn't sound as bad as it was. Let me elaborate: Nothing here tastes as salty as in the states, and something that you'd think would taste one way, tastes completely different. Add that on top of the fact that we were still having a hard time figuring out the ovens, we had cold not very good tasting frozen dinners. No fun.
On Sunday we went to church. Our ward is super small but there are a handful of expat families, and quite a few from other countries.
Sunday afternoon we had to move all of our stuff from one apartment, downstairs to another. This one was only one floor and 2 bedrooms, and it was awful. I tell you what. Before we had each girl in their own room. Now, Amaia had a room, and we had a room, and since neither room had enough space for the pack and play, Solia slept in the kitchen (whcih was only like a foot wider than the pack and play). We left it up the whole time because there was no way I was going to pack and un pack that thing every day.
Solia got pretty sick at one point-mostly with just a cold. But she was miserable. We spent a lot of time bumming around doing nothing. We went out to the grocery store a couple times to get stuff-mostly frozen dinners and cereal since we didn't have much by the way of cooking supplies. All Amaia had to play with were the toys I packed for her in the suitcase (flash cards, crayons and paper, foam beads and string, and a manga doodle) and her ipod. She pretty much watched movies all day (we brought some), and when she wasn't in front of the tv, she was watching aladdin on her ipod. It was awful.
On the 7th of December we finally got into our new house to find: NO HEAT! yikes. They were supposed to come fix it over the weekend, but they didn't. That night we had toast and ice cream for dinner (you think I"m kidding, but no). We went to Tesco (the closest thing to a super walmart) and bought 3 space heaters and some other things we needed. We had all 3 space heaters and the fireplace on in the living room, then at night we put on heater in each of our rooms. It took them A WEEK to get the heat fixed-luckily they reimbursed us the cost of the heaters, plus our electricity bill for the whole month of December for having to run the heaters 24/7.
Come back for more in the December 1st Half post...coming soon....hopefully....since all the pictures are all ready....
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