Day 3- Food, Water and Findings

View from our balcony. right in the middle of the picture you can the entrance to our grocery store. It has yellow letters

the park below our apartment.

More about these later.

Our street with Christmas lights.

The apartment building across from ours.

Today marked our 3rd day in country. When I speak to my littles back home it feels like a week has gone by. My Ash tries to give us toys and cheerios through the computer. He even gave me a kiss. Too sweet.

Josh and I ventured out for dinner. We walked through the local market place which was a lot like a farmers market. We then went to a local cafeteria. Our driver said it was good and that all we would have to do was point at what we wanted. Easy enough right? Its strange having to go on sight alone. We can't read the signs and don't understand the language so we went for it. We got a really tasty cold salad. I was all about it until I got a piece of raw fish. The crepes were AMAZING but I'm not sure what was inside of them. It also seemed like they put sour cream on everything even in the soup. The best part was the baked chicken, it was yummy. i will definitely order better next visit. I also visited the WC, (Patty!) and it was nice. This was the second public bathroom I ventured to and both have been extremely nice.

As for the water we aren't doing so hot. We can't figure out how to pick water with no gas. We have a bunch of carbonated water now and you would think we could figure this out but obviously not yet. I figure by the time we leave we will like carbonated water. We better or become dehydrated at the rate we are going!

As you can see from the pic above I bought shoes. I came across a store having a super sale. yay! good thing about shopping here, no one is overly helpful. Which means I can browse without giving up the fact that I don't speak the language. It is actually nice not to be bombarded by salesmen. I'm going to try out my shoes, which are fuzzy inside, tomorrow at our SDA appointment. I'm so EXCITED! about the appointment not the shoes hehe!

So I have noticed some things here and I want to share with you some of my random findings.
~everyone walks extremely fast!
~I have only seen 4 stray dogs, no cats, one of the dogs had just had puppies :o( They too walk very fast.
~ People on the street asking for money only come out at night. The older women lay face down on the ground asking for money. I wish I knew more about the services available to people here.
~I came across something that still wrenches my heart, a pregnant girl sitting on the side of the sidewalk with a cup in front of her. Her face haunts me. What was her story? Oh how I wish I spoke the language! Oh how I wish I could help her!
~I have also seen some young boys on the streets without proper clothing and begging. I wonder about their past. I wonder where they came from.
~People here are very serious. I stick out like a sore thumb. I try not to say hi to people as we pass and I try not to point and wave at things but I think the only way to accomplish this is to tie my hands. Josh keeps saying jokingly 'Stop it your going to get arrested!' He's a nut.
~When the light for the cross walk turns green you go. No matter whether there are cars still coming or not. I swear cars here can stop on a dime and pedestrians expect them to. Josh and I have joined the ranks and we just go!
~ I'm even more of a weanie than I originally thought. When trying on shoes I realized they weren't the most comfortable things. I was going to get boots with a heel but I couldn't hack it.
~ You can't (or we can't) buy just one onion. Josh went to the grocery today to buy some stuff and there was a bin of onions so he got one and put it in a bag. The checkout lady pointed to it and threw her hands up like "what is this?" He then went back and got a whole package of them. While he was gone the lady charged him for another plastic bag. Did I tell ya'll about that? You have to buy bags at the store even the plastic ones. He had taken ours but was gone to the onions at the time she rang up the bag.

Well I'm off to shower and then to bed and then to OUR SDA APPOINTMENT! YIPPEE!
I do hope this shower goes better than my first. I soaked the floor of the bathroom. apparently the shower curtain doesn't hold under pressure and the shower has fabulous water pressure. Wish me luck!