Wooooooohoooooooooooo! Hot water!!!!!!

Sept 14 – Sunday 8:30 am – so far it's a bit cloudy but otherwise should be a nice day…. Hi everyone – well as you can tell by the title, we’re ESTATIC to tell you we now have hot water – glorious, beautiful, wonderful (there aren’t enough adjectives) hot water! It came back on Saturday afternoon, so we’re happy to say we’re staying in this apartment – yay!

After this bit of good news, we went to our visit with Angelique, so it was a double-great afternoon! It always takes a minute to get our visit going when we’ve missed a day, but then she was back into it and we had a fun time. We brought a book (Itsy bitsy spider) and she loved it – we’d brought books on trip 1 and she wasn’t interested, but this time she wouldn’t put it down – another yay! We also brought a couple of hair clips, and she spent a lot of time putting them in and taking them out of her hair – so I guess there is some girly-girl in her!

Speaking of girly stuff, we’ve (OK I’ve) finally decided what her outfit will be for ‘gotcha day’ later this week – it may not seem like it would be a big deal, but this will be the first time ever that we get to pick out something for her to wear, and it’s the beginning of our new life together, so I want it to be extra special. There will be lots of pictures taken, I’m sure!!! (Which we will share later, we promise)

Earlier yesterday we bought some fancy coffee from Tea and Coffee Garden – it’s a beautiful little store, reminded me of something you’d see on Academy or Osborne in Winnipeg. Old building, beautiful architecture with lots of nooks and crannies, and it smelled heavenly with dozens of types of coffee on one wall, and dozens of loose-leaf teas in tins on the counter. We picked up some Dominican and some African beans, both of which smelled lovely. I’m sipping the Dominican right now as I type this, and it’s gooooood.

After the visit we chatted with a couple of people then crashed on the couch with a movie. We picked up a pizza from the grocery store for dinner – very interesting to see what an Asian country does with Italian food – no sauce but pieces of tomatoes scattered in, no pepperoni but something like cut up hotdogs, some cubed meat chunks and shredded cheese. Oh and there were corn niblets under the meat!

We do get to visit today (Sunday) which is unusual, but we were told it’s only because we cannot go tomorrow, not sure why. So we look forward to our visit today!

Hope everyone is well at home – thanks again for the calls, emails and comments – we love to hear from you!

Have a great weekend – take care
Love N&P