The American Ambassador

Okay to start, just to clarify, I DO NOT wear the long black dress thingy (an Abaya) or need to have my head covered on a daily basis.  I was wearing that only because we were visiting the mosque and it's required to get in. They give them out for free and it's necessary to wear it the whole time.  Men walk around telling you if it's sort of slipping off or if it comes off all together.  Anyway, if you plan to visit us here, we'll be going there. It's beautiful and quite a site to see.

Life is sort of in a routine for now.  We're waiting to move into our home, but our temporary house is very comfortable and has everything we need.  Our temporary house is on campus so it makes it convenient for walking to and from work.  The stores are very close and we have a car which provides great convenience.  Otherwise, we go to work each morning and come home each night like many of you do.  Normal office jobs...Trey's won't be so much.  Trey is going to play soccer on Tuesday nights and I think we found a gym we're going to join.  At this point, we found a nice place to walk outside at night after work. The weather has been great and we're trying to enjoy it before the HEAT comes. I'm happy we're not on the coast...it's really humid there. We live inland and it's less humid here than in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Thank goodness!

It's hard for me to get used to the work weeks, though.  Our work week is Sunday through Thursday here.  Friday is church day and Saturday for us is like Saturday at home (errands, doing fun things, etc).  Tomorrow is Tuesday but also hump day here.....I keep thinking Wednesday is hump day and then I'm pleasantly surprised on Thursday afternoon that the weekend is here!! 

Anyway....we're doing great. We'll keep you updated and take some more pictures.  Trey did a great job with that last round of pictures from the mosque in Abu Dhabi.  That new lense seems to be worth it.  Hopefully we'll get out and about taking more pictures for you to see.