Monday afternoon/evening

Well the day got better.  I met Huffle at the licence centre.  When we got there, there were two queues.  One for tests (very short and moving fast) and one for issuing licences (very long and very slow). It took an hour of waiting and then half an hour to sort us both out with a licence.

The lady was very friendly and helpful.  She took our uk licences, made us do a sight test, took a photo of us not smiling (not easy when Huffle was making me laugh), took $75 off us both and issued us with a paper licence. Cards to follow in two/three weeks.  JOB DONE.

Now we need to look for cars (although I am quite attached to my BMKB car).  

I picked the boys up from school.  Smallest came out first.  Grinning and holding a folder.  He had had a good day (although hadn't been to the toilet all day!). He loved his teacher and he had made some new friends, although he couldn't name them.

Small came out with books, looking tired, but happy.  He loved it, he had had a good day and he had made a new friend (he could remember his name).  Small's teacher then introduced me to another teacher who moved here fours ago from the West Midlands UK, who gave me her number and said I could call anytime and she would take me around if I liked to show me where things were.  There is no doubt that people are genuinely friendly here.

Huffle came home happy but tired.  He just needed to know that the boys were settled and liked school.  

He has also met (well via phone) someone who lives near where we will live and has a son in Smallest's class and who has invited us for Christmas drinks. 

I think we will be fine after all.

I don't have any photos today because I have spent too much time driving.  I will be spending the day with Smallest tomorrow while Huffle is at work and Small is at school so maybe there will be some photo opportunities then.  I have to find a snowman outfit for Small for a concert he will be in!  Now that's a challenge!

Friends, Cars and Bicycles

Yesterday we visited some friends. The weather was good and they played and scuffled in the garden.

Today we went to the Cinema to see Cars2. It was the safe option for me because I wasn't feeling too well and I didn't want to run around, plus it was a sticky hot day.

This is not a brilliant photo as we were in the cinema - I had just given them a packet of Maltesers and told them they couldn't eat them till the film started.  They were giggling and smelling them.  Smallest HAD to have one but Small managed to wait.  Nice one Small.

It was an okay film, I thought the first one was much better, but the Smalls enjoyed it.


Then the Smalls had their hair cut and played with their friends (who happened to be the hairdressers children).

Small decided he would climb the tree, swing from the branch 'like a monkey' and grab hold of a rope............

......... and then fall off - whoops (oh yes whilst wearing roller skates) - EXTREME!!!




Then the boys went for a bike ride

I am waiting for the storm that has been forecast and I don't mean the boys fighting again, although that's happening right now. I asked smallest why they can't just get on and play nicely together. His reply was "I think it's because we are not girls!"