happenings

I had some pictures on the memory card in my camera, and my laptop ate the memory card! It's stuck on something, and after trying to pry it out with a butter knife, i'm going to let mr. computer guru get it out, don't tell about the butter knife though :)
We finally got a rental car, and hubby has his visa, we don't have ours yet, as he had to get his to sponsor us. So the contract on the villa is moving forward, and hopefully soon we can live like normal people in a house, and not eat out every night. That gets old very quickly. Although it is nice to have chili's delivered to your door.
Hubby drives like a pro here, me...not so much. We got the gps and that is a godsend. Although the roads have 3 names for each road, and they turn into different roads. I got completely lost getting the kids. "Take the 5th exit on the roundabout...recalculating...." Why doesn't it just scream at me "turn now stupid...oh you moron you missed it!" You know they want to. :) I went on the same roundabout 3 times and missed it. And it wasn't the charles griswald missed it, where i went in circles, it was the i took the wrong exit and was going down the wrong road. There are no u-turns. So i was going down the wrong road for 5 to 10 minutes before i could re route. Once i missed the exit to the school, and was right on the other side of a field/desert. Had i had my suv, i could have hopped the curb. That was sure annoying. The kids were awfully quiet, and monkey shooshed midget once, as i gripped with white knuckles and stared at the gps :) We made it home though, i only missed the street once:) Really it's just a little different way of driving, and i think once we get used to it, it will be fine. I'm picking them up today, as she has drama club, so i hope it goes a bit better:)
They are signing up for music lessons, they do them during school. She chose the flute, parly because i played it, i hope she likes it. 8 seems young to me to play that, but it's what she wanted. I explained that they do have to practice, so i hope they like it. He chose the guitar, which he's wanted to play for a couple years. I think music is such a great way to express yourself, so i hope they love it as much as i did. Monkey has also fallen in love with drama class, and he even earned house points for his house he did so well. He's such a funny kid, and likes to act silly, so i think this is awesome. He thought it would be boring he said, so that's why he never really was interested. Now he knows it is fun, he's all for it. So he is switching out of the music technology club, and into the drama club. Watch out world, because this could be his thing i fear... :) Midget is also into the drama club, but she is just dramatic, so i am interested to see how she likes it. She's dramatic in a different way than her brother. He is not shy one bit, and will do anything, anywhere to get attention. She is a bit shyer sometimes. So we shall see. It was that or arabic cross-stitching. Which was surprisingly full.
I also ventured out walking near the hotel, and found the most wonderful bookstore. It is called all prints, and has craft supplies and all kinds of magazines and books. I was so happy to be in there. There is something so calming about a bookstore. I got a couple books, since my kindle charger was tossed by the hubby. A whole other story :) I got a wonderful ballet book for midget, and even found monkey's skateboarding magazine. So there was a bit of home. I also found eggo waffles at the lulu market. Waffles, i mean really, they have cocoa pebbles, eggo waffles and a bookstore that is a barnes and noble and michael's craft store in one. We might just make it here after all :)
That is about it going on here. Hubby is running from ministry to ministry getting all our paperwork done. It's pretty stressful, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel now. We are working on paperwork for the school. Grammie is helping with that. The schools here don't recognize grades, just years. So we have forms to fill out. Sheldon is driving grandma bonkers, and she is anxious for him to go i think. We are dying to see our super kitty. Monkey is so desperate he's taken to trying to pet these stray cats, and i can't stand that. Who knows what they have. Midget is looking for new kittens online. Sad isn't it? Our stuff should be arriving on the 25th to the port. It will be there a few days to clear, so hopefully around the same time our villa will be ours. Can the stars allign that well?