Week One

Our new adventure began with a fourteen hour plane ride where I forgot to bring my children's games. Oh, I remembered to bring their nintendo's all right, but I didn't bring any games for them to play in them. So I got the benefit of lugging around 10 pounds of equipment, but no quiet time from my children as they would have played their games. Yay me! Casey did get a little air sick, and did end up throwing up in the tiny, yet absorbent, air sick bag.


After arriving we began our mass hysteria of trying to get everything done. Immigration is sooo fun!!! There is an unbelievable amount of paper work and running around to get documents, that it's unreal. We have literally been doing this all week. I dont' know what we would have done if his mom wouldn't have been helping us.

We also registered everyone for school. When we went to sign me up, we found out my class started in 10 minutes. Fun huh! But I really like it. Hopefully I'll be able to actually understand and speak in a few months. Ashton started school on Wednesday and he seems to really like it. The school bus picks him up in the morning and drops him off in the afternoon. It's fabulous for me, cuz it's really far away... and you can't really take a subway, so you walk the whole way. They are teaching both Chinese and English. The girls start school on Monday at the same place I go, so I'll take them in the morning, come back to the coffee shop and then go back to my class in the afternoon and then all three of us will come home together. It takes about 45 minutes to get there each way... that's subway and walking time combined. Unless of course you're stupid like me and go the wrong way then it takes about an hour and a half.

It's Saturday today, and we went and bought us a bed... a soft bed!! Yay us!!! I was way excited.... ya ya ya, I know it really doesn't take much.

So right now we're still adjusting. I find myself waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning and can't go back to sleep. It probably has something to do with the sunrise too. They don't do the daylight savings thing here, so it get's bright pretty early in the morning. The kids are doing much better than me.

John's been working pretty much non-stop since we got here. I'm not too thrilled about that, but hopefully it won't last much longer. He's excited to go eat and show me all the good places. But I don't think that I'll be venturing out by myself much for the next little while until I get my bearings.

Well that's pretty much it until next week.

We love and miss everyone tons!!!!!!!!!