I want to write this for me (and maybe my family) to some day look back and remember this part of life with a little more clarity. It's one heck of an undertaking and a crazy adventure. We have been here a little less than a week so far and I have had approximately a gazillion emotions/thoughts run through my head. Ranging from "I am so happy, this is such a neat, once in a life time experience!" to "This is was dumbest idea ever, I hate this stupid country and I have one been here a few days, how am I going to get through years in this terrible place?". It's HOT here right now, and I don't mean normal HOT (and keep in mind I lived in Phoenix, AZ). It's like that level in Super Mario 3 where the sun tries to kill you. It's that kinda HOT here. Currently, it's July, I hear August is worse. In fact, shortly after arriving, we found out that most expats are leaving. They get the heck out of here in the summer because it's too hot. (That possibly was the first indication that I made a mistake. We maybe should have spent July and even a week or two of August in the USofA with grandparents. Eh, live and learn!)
Facebook and Insta will have a lot more pictures but I can blabber on a lot more on here! It was my sweet and wise Mother in Law's (do you capitalize that?) idea to write a blog about this crazy trip/s around the sun and I am glad she brought it up. One day I hope to look back and smile (or laugh, maybe cry, we shall find out). So, if you are willing to read through a lot of grammar and punctuation errors, feel free to join me!
For now... Hey-Ho from Bahrain! We are living in the middle/southern part of the country, a small town called Riffa. The twins are 10 years old, (How in the world did that happen?! Huge.Crocodile.Tears.) and going into 5th grade next year. Jonathan is out of the Army (for a while now) and works for Amazon. As it turns out we have moved just as much with Amazon as we ever did with the Army and Amazon is taking us crazy, exciting places like Bahrain. The Army took us to slightly ghetto places like Fort Benning, GA (I mean, Go Army, Home of the Infantry, HOO-AH! Right?!), go figure. At any rate, in case you thought (like I did) that this would mean I could still ORDER stuff from Amazon because they are in Bahrain, you are sadly mistaken! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in Bahrain, and thus, we are too, but regular, order anything you can think of under the sun, Amazon, not so much friends. At least not yet. Back to Bahrain, the twinados will be going to Riffa Views International School, which is possibly the thing I am most excited about, it seems like a great school. I will be trying to figure out what to do with my life, again. After the kids started pre-school (we were living in Chesterfield, VA at the time) I went to work at the gym I was working out at as a personal trainer. Super awesome and rewarding job! When we moved to Texas I started working for Gold's Gym as a Group Fitness Instructor and eventually ended up as the Gold's Studio Head Coach! I can't say how much I LOVED my job. The members were fantastic and made waking up at 4:00AM every day totally worth it (Ok, at least 9 times out of 10, that 1 I was usually just SUPER tired!) and my co-workers were the best. After I get everything and everyone settled out here I will try and figure out what's next for me!
That (kinda) brings us up to now, we got WiFi a couple days ago (game changer) so here we are just waiting for our first installment of stuff. AKA: the 500 pound (though not in our case because I had no idea what to pack) Air Shipment. The rest is coming by sea and will not be her for another month (if all goes well). Right now we have a nice house full of only the stuff we brought in our suitcase or have bought since we have arrived. For example, we are sleeping on the neck pillows we had on the airplane:
Come on 500lbs Air Shipment. Mama needs her french press and a real pillow!
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