Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A few of my favorite things....

So we're here and settling in.  Tonight is our 3rd night and 3rd different sleeping situation. Flexibility, right?!  We were put in a hotel for our first night but it was supposed to have a kitchen for us, so on day 2 they moved us to a room with a kitchen. Then day 3 we got a call that we were moving to a house on campus.  We'll be in this house for about 6 weeks and then move off campus to a permanent place.  There is some construction going on here for new housing on campus along with a new hospital.

A fellow Gordon grad, Jenna and her husband Allan, live here and work at Oasis Hospital, too. They have been wonderful in helping us find our way.  I'll take a photo of them for you at some point and post it.  They had us over for enchiladas tonight and they have internet!

We went to the grocery store last night (I can get everything in one place again!) and the mall.  We took some pictures. I'll post some today and then some tomorrow.  We'll post some pictures of the hospital and our temporary house later this week.


Trey loves this juice...it's that Boathouse stuff you find in market. I can't believe they have it here.

 
They have limes here!! In our old home they just called them green lemons and were only in season for about 2 weeks in August:)  Is it obvious that I was trying to pretend that someone wasn't taking my photo?

  
Ignore the face...I'm trying not to be one of those crazy tourists who takes pictures in the grocery store.  They have candy canes and there was some Halloween candy in there still, too.


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Yeah! So glad you are settling in to your new life! We miss you already! Good thing you left on Sunday because we are being hit with another foot and a half of snow right now. Just hoping I don't go in to labor or something during this blizzard!
Glad that you have some "luxury" products at your grocery store.

~Seth and Nancy~ said...

that's too funny...green lemons :-)
must be nice to do one-stop shopping again. glad you guys arrived there safe and sound and have someone to show you the ropes. looking forward to reading more about your adventures!

Anne Mutch said...

Hey Jessie and Trey,

Thanks for posting! It's great to hear about your adventures and your move to Al Ain. I hope you will start to feel settled very soon.

Miss ya!