Catching up Part 1

Helloooo... yes, it's been awhile since I posted my "weekly" blog, so today's will be a catch up blog on everything we've been up to recently. We'll start way back to Sukkot - we had fun celebrating the holiday with our new Israeli friends who built a sukkah in their yard and even had a lulav and etrog from Israel. And here, sukkot includes swimming in the pool - different from my memories of shivering in the sukkah at my parent's house.

And then we have Lucy's "unpacking the classroom" event where she showed Fred and I all the different things she has learned at school and what she will be exploring in the future. She is definitely my daughter - loves everything about school, can't wait to go each day, and is incredibly enthusiastic about every topic they learn. Charlie quietly read his book during Lucy's meeting.

Max completed his trimester of drama class with a performance during JagArts. His group had a great performance!

And then there was Halloween ... special friends hosted a fun potluck after trick or treating around the neighborhood (she pre-arranged it with her neighbors who were happy to join in on the fun - participating families provided the candy and they enjoyed handing it out to the kids and seeing all the fun costumes). And then the American Embassy had a big tent trick or treating event with a haunted house managed by the high school kids. Kids had fun that weekend and have reached the age where the fun is in getting the candy and then it's pretty much forgotten the next day. :) This year we had a princess witch, a minecraft person, and Joker.

Fred has had a busy travel schedule over the last few months but we take advantage when he's here and visited one of our favorite restaurants here ... while you wait for your fish (Charlie) or pizza (Lucy and Max) you can swim in the pool. We've learned to appreciate the culture around meals here - there's no such thing as grabbing a quick bite somewhere ... if you're going to go out to eat, it's going to take awhile so relax and enjoy - kids can run around, swim, play while the adults enjoy the weather and chat. Sunday lunch is an afternoon event. Not a bad thing ...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! The kids and I went away with some other families to Somone - pictures and info coming on Part 2 of the catching up post. :)