Weekends

skate park



Dad and midget, all ready for a day at work

police car at the car fire

car fire at the university by the kids school

splash pad at night

waiting for a cab.....and waiting

field/desert on the way to school

I don't think i will ever get used to Friday beings Saturday, and Saturday being Sunday. For some reason that just confuses me, and throws the days off. So on Friday, which was really Thursday, we went and hung out at the park, and then came back here. Monkey got to skate at the skate park, and midget and I tried out the splash pad. Well, it got dark before we got there, and one little section was on on the splash pad. There was one family, and they were just watching she and I. It had the poles like the one did back home, so i kept telling midget go rub the top of the pole, that is how you got them to go on at home. So she would rub it, and nothing, She tried all of them, but still just the one section was on. All the while this arabic mom, and her friend and about 4 kids were just watching us. Finally midget just splashed in the one little section. I got the feeling we looked a little nuts rubbing these poles, but i could swear that is how you turn the darn things on! So i think this afternoon we will go out there and see how the thing works. All the while trying to keep some dignity :)
Monkey had a much better time, there must have been 50 kids at that skate park! Some on bikes, some on boards, and some on rollerblades. It's apparently big here, go figure. They were from all different places, and were all doing cool tricks and showing each other how. He had a great time, and talked to alot of people. when he finally got back in, his face was so red, but he had the biggest grin ever.
Yesterday we went to our friends and ate chilli. They are great cooks, and they had some other people over. We were talking about the kids first week of school. All the new words they learned, like midget learned the "rubbish bin". For those of us it's just a fancy word for trash can. Biscuit, a cookie. So she knows now she wants a chocolate chip biscuit, she needs to learn these essential things. She also lost her swimming costume, which was in her kitbag. In our language, she lost her swimsuit, that was in her gymbag. She came home with a boys swim suit. Hopefully she finds hers today. I'm not up for another scavenger hunt for a blue swimsuit... :(
It is so funny, both the kids, and our friends son are picking up these hilarioius accents. I guess being around the british all day rubs off on them. Although monkey just likes making fun of it, and talking about hogwarts. But at the dinner we had 2 polish people, 5 americans, an australian and a south african. Now are these kids going to be well rounded or what? All these people seem to pick up the accent. Like our realtor, she was american, but has picked up a british accent, with an arabic one mixed in. So can you imagine our kids? A british/arabic/texan accent. It's really going to sound funny when they say yall :)
"yall want to come to my villa? mummy says we can have some biscuits and go swimming..."