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We have been BUSY! BUSY! BUSY! (insert Professor Hinkle's voice). (ocupado!
ocupado! ocupado! doesn't quite have the same ring to it...)
Bulletin-style post:
Since we arrived, we've played some tennis, swam in a pool, BBQd some burgers at the TLF (hotel). The boys attended a "soccer" (footy) camp (it was not huge, was far below the level of what they're accustomed to and the poor older boy towered the entire group- he was the same size as or taller than than the adult coaches).
My kids are good sports. They could have given up on the first day, but they stuck it out and made some friends.
We were invited to dinner with a bubbly/friendly group of church people and played Pit! where we sadly discovered that Hubby and I are set in our ways on how games are supposed to be played...
We then were able to move into our house. Luckily, some very nice people loaned us sheets and some kitchen items to survive on since the af deemed it unnecessary to send a smaller shipment ahead (as we do with EVERY other overseas move).
I thought we were quite creative the way we took turns eating cereal out of a mixing bowl.
The older boy left for a week-long church camp in Germany.
We took a fabulous "Right Start" tour, a boat trip around one side of the island (and discovered two of our children get sea sick), and a tour of the cheese factory, pottery shop, church and had some great meals out.
Festas do Praia then kicked off with a "work" dinner, roasted whole pig and all-
where the youngest boy suddenly became vegetarian.
The island is beautiful and we're eager (and apprehensive) about starting a new life here. There are photos that go along with all of this you see, but we've run into a bit of a technical issue and will have to do that at a later date, but for now...
Welcome to the Azores!
