October 5, 2013

I've had some issues with sun poisoning lately.  Since the Embassy Health Unit doesn't have doxycycline, I got it at a local pharmacy.  Many things here are just OTC.  You ask for them and they give them to you.  The pills ended up costing under 3 cents a piece so I don't think I will try to get insurance to reimburse me. :)  Unfortunately, I didn't think to look up precautions to take when using doxycycline.  Since the weather has been nice, we have been trying to enjoy Saturdays outside as a family.  Saturday night or Sunday morning I would wake up feeling awful.  I would be nauseous, vomit, and feel dizzy.  I would be feverish and have a horrible headache and my skin would feel hot to me, but not to the touch.  Evidently doxycycline and sun do not mix well for some people and I am definitely one of them!  At least my mystery illness was solved and it was an easy fix.  Once I am off of it for two weeks I should be okay again.

My mom has asked for a picture of Justin's school.  We always walk in from the back because it is much shorter to go that way.  Probably saves a couple of kilometers.  Anyway, here is a picture of J's school from the back as we are walking down the hill.  I will take some more pics for next week.  The front is nicer and you can find a picture of it here: http://www.qsi.org/schoolpages/arm/home/

 

 

On Friday, Rob and I had some paperwork to fill out in order to renew our passports.  When we finished, we went out to eat.  Nice traffic. :(

We walked around downtown for awhile and ended up eating at Dolmamama.  I had the Dolma Dolmamama which is spicy rice and meat wrapped in grape leaves.  I should have taken the picture BEFORE I started to eat.  It looked better with 6 on the plate and no juices spilling out.  Oh well.  Dolma are probably not the prettiest things in the world anyway.  I know what my boys would say that they look like.  Rob had the steak au poivre.  Both of our choices were good, but I think his was better.

 





Skyler, who lives across the street, babysat the boys.  They LOVE her!  It had been raining earlier in the day and Ryan was afraid that we were going to cancel.  He had it in his head that we were going to get food at a restaurant (probably KFC he said) and eat it in the park.  We could relax because he and Justin wouldn't be there so it would be quiet.  I told him that we were going to eat inside a restaurant and that it was going to be a grown-up restaurant.  He's hoping we do the KFC and park thing soon so Skyler can watch them again.

Life is pretty routine and fairly unexciting.  Still enjoying the warm weather!

February 5, 2012

The most exciting part of the week for us was probably getting the list of potential places for Rob’s next assignment. It is fun to think about the next place we will go and what it will be like for our family. We are reading up on the different places and weighing the pros and cons for each place. Hopefully it won’t be too long until we find out, at least unofficially. It is fun to think of the next adventure. Our next post will probably be one that both boys will be old enough to remember well.


On Wednesday we went to the library with the boys’ friend, Leah, and her mother, Tanja. I would have NEVER found it if we hadn’t gone with them. You go in this small back door and walk down a hallway with boxes stacked around. Down one hallway there is a reception type desk with a woman sitting behind it. She is the librarian. She opens the door to a storage room and turns on the lights. The books are lined up on shelves with very little sense of order. Children’s books are together. Adult books are separated by language. No windows, yucky fluorescent lighting and very stuffy in that room. I am assuming that it is there because the real library is undergoing a six month renovation. The interesting thing about the renovation is that it started in February 2009. Lovely. To get a library card, you have the woman make a copy of your driver’s license. You write down your name, address, and phone number and the books you are taking out along with the date. When you return them, you cross of the books you return. The cards are kept in a shoebox looking box. Wow! Wonder how well that works for them? I am sure they end up missing plenty of books. Of course, no one else was there. Perhaps they can’t find the place!

On Thursday we got to babysit Nicky and Timmy while their parents (Gilbert and Sara) went out to celebrate Sara’s birthday. My boys were so excited to have friends over for dinner. After that they played trains until I finally put my kids to bed. They all played pretty nicely together until about an hour after bedtime. I sat up with Nicky and Timmy watching Go, Diego, Go videos.

Other than that it has been pretty routine. We went to swimming lessons, had our playgroup, and shopped for food. We will see what the next week brings.