It has been a whirl wind over the last few weeks as we have traveled, set up a house, spent time with friends, etc. Despite our busy schedule, we have made our family time a priority. We went to a nearby park (15 mins outside of our city) and decided to hike up the side of a mountain (what we call mountains here, anyway...) :)
Thankful for the timer on our camera!
We are training Morgan to take pictures.. haha! She did a pretty good job with this one.
Here we are, hiking back down... you can see a park below...
Prior to setting up our house, we spent 10 days in our house without our furniture... camped out on air mattresses... which meant plenty of board games & lots of creativity for entertainment when we were not out in the community meeting local friends.
And on day #11... lo and behold... the sight we were waiting to see... the truck with our furniture and stuff to set up our house. And Yes, it was about 8pm at night when they showed up, unloaded, set up our beds and returned the next morning to unpack the rest. Gotta love the "Door to Door" service in this part of the world :)
This is our living room (majilis)... the kids were surrounded by boxes...
This is the front of our house.. its deeper then it looks and wider too... there's actually a 2nd door to the right (not pictured) where the men can enter the house without having contact with women. Such an interesting cultural...
Here are a few pics of our entry way... technically, we think its suppose to be a 2nd sitting area, but its where our dinning room table is for now... plus a few of our book shelves. Its so nice having our house put together and functioning again! (More pics to come)
And where the majority of our time has been spent... visiting with our local friends. Below Morgan is sitting at a visit prior to the Engagement Party we attended... just an average snack in the afternoon on a visit :)
And breakfast with a different friend.. Love the simplicity of the meals eaten here... sure missed spending time with our Arab friends...
Will post more pics of the house and updates on what we've been up to...
5 comments:
Love all the pics!! Especially the ones on your hike! Looks like good quality family time! :) Love yall!!
Love all these. Joyce
Food looks great! I know you were thrilled to get all those boxes! It's great to see some glimpses of where you are!
Tell Morgan I think she is a WONDERFUL photographer. Maybe she'll be the one to get Micah to start looking at the camera!!!
Have a great day. Love you!
Tracy
So crazy how different this post is from the last time you guys arrived in B-town. What a great idea to go hiking up the mountain, sounds like a great family fun day! Glad your stuff arrived and you are getting settled in.
So cool to see your place! I hope you guys are feeling more settled and have everything set up! We sure do miss you guys!
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