Bummed!

This morning I found out my daughter Cara would not be coming to visit us this week. She sent an e mail saying that she feels she needs to really start looking for work and she would like to visit when her sisters can come. It would have been wonderful seeing her, but I understand. None the less, I'm bummed.....

Backing up a little.....

.....We did get our sea freight about 1 pm on Valentine's Day. Everything was here and in good condition. Most everything has been unpacked. I'm just waiting to see where the pictures are going to be hung.

Megan gave me a beautiful red silk Chinese tablecloth for Christmas that I have no intention of using as a tablecloth. I want to get it hung as a tapestry. I just need to figure out how to do it. I have morning coffee tomorrow with the ladies. I'll ask them.

My scrapbook area is just about set up the way I want it......I think. I have my big "INSPIRE" that Brenda gave me on the windowsill that looks out to the bridge. I like it.

GOOD NEWS!!

Yesterday Mark, Glen, Aya and I went to the duty free zone to look for cars. It is on the way to Iraq! LOL! Well, that's what the sign says; it's actually about 45 minutes from Amman smack in the middle of the dessert. This is a huge area that has all kinds of cars - new and used. Mark and I were pretty lucky and seemed to find a car on the first day of looking. We will be getting an Acura MDX SUV!! OMG!! It's so big! I had really wanted to get a little manual car that got good gas mileage. But many of the women here told me I needed to get a larger car because if you have a little car the other cars - especially the taxis, won't "respect" you and will try and cut you off. Being a woman only makes this worse. I explained this to Mark who listened. However, we had been in agreement earlier about getting a little car. Mark asked the driver that took us to the duty free zone and he confirmed everything I was saying about how small cars and women are treated on the road. Hence the Acura MDX. Well, it's fully loaded and we got it for $17,000. We thought it was a pretty good deal. We don't actually own it yet. Now we have to do all the paperwork to get the car. No one in his office has done this before and so we are testing new waters. So, even though we have chosen a new car, it may not be in our possession for quite a while! AHHHHH, Life in the developing world.