Gettling Settled

Life just became so much easier as we have internet in our house or I should say casa now! They told us it would take four weeks to get, and we received it in one week. Before, we would have to drive about 8 miles to get on the internet so it was a hastle! So blog posts will be up to date from now on....

So an update on life in Spain.... what a change in pace!!!! For the past 27 years of life I only knew one speed and that was to be in a rush all the time and here your forced to chill and SLOW DOWN. I would say to a speed that I didn't even know existed. Like waiting to get the internet for four weeks!!!

The culture here is amazing. One hears about the Spanish taking "ciestas", BUT it's actully true! The rush hour here is 2pm, because everyone goes home eats a lunch with family and friends, drinks wine, and then takes a nap. Businesses close during this time and don't re open until 7-9pm!!! We went out to a festival the other night and didn't leave our house till 9pm and returned at 12am, with the children!! Everyone is out pushing their strollers and children are running in the streets!!! It's a HUGE adjustment for us and were early to bed people early to rise in the past, BUT it's a fun chanage and were adapting!!!!

Everyone here is really kind out in town and gratefully my spaninsh is coming back to me! Andy is in a language course for this month and with our combined schooling, I think we're going to make it;) However, I did confuse how to say my name and how to say my husband's name and was telling people that my name was Andrew and Andy's name was Alicia:0

We moved into hour house on Monday and took the job upon ourselves of painting.... so pictures will be soon up once it's all done!! Let's justt say we went BOLD!! We had about ten houses to choose from and we opted out of the four bedroom for the three bedroom for the only house with the Atlantic Ocean as the ENTIRE backyard view!!! We're able to put as much into storage after our house hold goods arrive as we need, so were banking on that and our down sizing!!! BUT dont' worry we put the kiddos in the same room, so we still have a guest bedroom!!

We are very lucky and have awesome neighbors. Just a few steps away lives Drew's future wife, Olivia, who's also two and they have three year orders here as well, so they will grow up together here. Olivia is so darn cute with tight curls!

Drew and Claire are doing great. Drew is adjusting and having fun seeing his old toys arrive in shifts, so that's cute to see. We jumped right in to get him into a routine and he starts tumbling once a week, structured play three times a wk, and we're looking into soccer.
Claire is 100% girl and we're already seeing it!! She loves to be held, let me re-phrase that, has to be held.... has bright blue eyes, and TON'S of hair (when it's humid it has curls). HATES, HATES, HATES her car seat!!!! But smiles and coo's all the time when she's out of it!! Drew is SUCH a great big brother to her and shakes rattles for her and she just smiles so big at him!

This is one of the many play grounds just a few houses down!!

Drew is OBSESSED with soccer

The beach is walking distance from our place

The walk to the beach

This is the festival that we went to last weekend. The restaurants had all sorts of food and drinks out to try!

They had a kid's area that Drew really enjoyed. It was really cute. Drew was SO serious driving his car as he had never been on anything like this and thought he was really driving!! He was turning his wheel so hard to make the turns!!

This was a big jumping thing that was full of balls, Drew was in heaven!