Today was the first day of school. Luckily for us, the school doesn’t provide a hot lunch option, so this morning we made lunches for four children. We have never made that many home made lunches in one morning in our lives. Somehow we got it done.
boys not wanting to get up
We arrived at the school on time, and the kids classes are all very close together. Our oldest was given a back full of treats and candies from her classmates. Our second child said he was surrounded by kids asking a lot of questions. He was overwhelmed because he can answer one person at a time, but not groups. Our third child seemed to enjoy his class, and spoke a little Spanish at least when he entered his class for the first time. And then there is our youngest.
Our youngest child plays to his strengths. He knows how adorable he is. He wields his cuteness like a master swordsman. When Bonnie introduced him to his preschool teacher, he gave her a thumbs up, then said to her “soy Caleb, estoy listo”, “I’m Caleb, and I’m ready.” Then he walked up to his new teacher and gaveled a big hug.
When they started their school day, Bonnie and I drove to the downtown to mail post cards, and go to the bank.
The drive into downtown is interesting. The town we are in is an old mining town, and so the town has multiple tunnels all through the city. This is an example of one of them. The below videos are a little shaky but a great example.
After downtown, we drove our rental car back to the airport to turn it in. Our car we are purchasing won’t be ready until Monday. After dropping the car off, we took a taxi back to our place from the airport.
To get a taxi at the airport, you first have to go inside at the Taxi booth and tell them where you plan to go. They then charge you, and give you a ticket. You take the ticket outside and a concierge assigns a taxi to you and they drive you to where you need to go. It seemed much safer to me doing it that way.
After school the kids seemed to be in a good mood. I was mostly worried for child 2, but he seemed to be ok after school and this evening when I put him to bed. When we are laying in bed at night that’s when he’s the most honest, and he said the day went pretty well.
The real highlight of my day was when my mother in law called, and our oldest squealed, took the phone from my wife and told her about her wonderful day. That was the best part of this trip so far. Hopefully it only gets better from here on out. *
Our Family Adventure 