We have arrived and have internet again! People kept asking us before we left if it was going to be as pretty as it looked on tv during the Olympics. Well, we did not see the Olympics, but we can say this. It is absolutely gorgeous. This first picture is right by our house. You can see the mountain tops from inside our home, but if you walk two houses down, this is what you see.
Pretty much everywhere you are has a great view of the mountains. I can see why so many people come to visit and then end up living here. We do not have a car here. We ride the bus and the sky train and walk. It is actually not too bad. We are told that it can be quicker to take public transit than to drive yourself.
This is a park we found about two blocks from our house. It has a nice playground, lots of playing room, tennis courts, a splash pad (when it warms up) and lots of other things to do and see. We even watched a little girls lacrosse team practice. Regan wanted to play. Are you surprised? I really do not feel like we are living in such a huge city even though I know we are. I thought that it would be really crowded everywhere and all the time, but it hasn't been that way for us yet. Maybe when the weather warms up all the people will start coming out of the woodwork.
One thing we have discovered is that groceries are very expensive (ie $8.00 for a small box of cereal, etc) and that stores close at strange times. Well, strange to us...for example...many stores close at 6:55 Monday-Thursday, 5:55 on Fridays, and 4:55 on Saturday and Sunday. Also, we had a microwave that had all the buttons in French. The only one we could read was pizza.
Now, you have heard about our first few days here, we'll backtack with the pics and let you see some of the things that lead up to this point.
This was all of our luggage at the Atlanta airport. Jonathan was carefully counting the pieces to make sure we had them all and I was carefully counting the kids to make sure we had them all :)
The views from the plane were also incredible. Apparently, it snowed out west. I love seeing all the different scenes as we were flying.
The kids did great on the plane. We had two flights to get here. Lauren took a little nap as you can see. On the second flight, they had put the four kids on row 20 and Jonathan and I on row 7. Needless to say, the people in row 19 agreed to switch seats with us, so that they were not babysitting the kiddos.
Before we left, we visited lots of family and friends, had Lauren's 1st birthday, celebrated Easter, had Benjamin's 5th birthday (several times). This is a picture of his older cousin and their matching shirts.
Benjamin and Nathan at his Super Hero birthday party.
Lauren at church. She finally gave up and fell alseep under the exersaucer. She was so funny.
Lauren loved her cookie cake!
The kids enjoyed their time with Auntie Em also. Here they were watching the clouds and the planes go by. You gotta love it!I'm sure we will have many more pics and stories next week. We plan to go exploring tomorrow!
