The first weekend in our house-July 15th-17th

I was happy to be in our house and needed to do laundry in a bad way.  We assumed that a washer/dryer stackable unit that is outside was connected and would run because it was there.  That was a faulty assumption on our part.  When we turned it on water sprayed everywhere-not so bad with the cold water but Greg nearly got burned turning off the hot.  That afternoon Greg came home early and the cable/internet people came and so we were very happy to have an internet connection at the house and will be able to watch tv when ours arrives.

When went to dinner at Outback Steakhouse that night-still no gas tank for the stove yet.  It was delicious!  As Greg posted on facebook, we were pleasantly surprised to walk in around 6 on Friday night and be able to immediately sit down with no wait for a table-just let us know any Friday night you'd like to come and join us.

On Saturday Greg went out and bought some coat hangers (something else we didn't think about bringing) a laundry basket, and a regulator to attach the gas tank to the stove-Yeah!  Some other guys also came and replaced the valves on the washing machine so it would run without spraying water everywhere.  Yeah again!  A house feels so much more functional when you can cook and wash clothes.  We all went swimming together that afternoon, ate warmed up leftovers for dinner, played Mille Bornes-we had found another game in the unpacking and ate ice cream before bed.  Greg's favorite is mint chocolate chip ice cream (which I think is just gross).  It is a genetic thing in his family-mom, sisters, aunts, uncles, everyone loves this ice cream.  We had been told that dairy products are hard to find and expensive here so I didn't know if we'd be able to find his mint chocolate chip ice cream here.  However I did and even in the first grocery store I tried at about the price I would have paid at a grocery store at home not on sale.  He was very excited and my children just love ice cream of any and all kinds so they were happy too.

Sunday we just spent the day around the house, hanging up clothes, settling in, and the kids enjoying playing with toys they hadn't seen in 2 weeks.