Second, THANK YOU girls for your willingness to write letters for us again! I hope you still have the old letters so you can cut and paste a lot! We will keep you posted, of course.
Now, on to the dry, boring stuff: Life in Ann Arbor. What? you were bored already? Sorry.
Ann Arbor has been frustrating because I feel perpetually lost. As someone said the other day (I don't remember who, but I didn't want to PLAGARIZE again), it's like someone designed it while they were drunk. I know how to find about 4 streets here. Luckily, we live between Target and Walmart and have 2 grocery stores, a Lowe's and a Home Depot around the corner. So we are not starving. BUT I can't find anything in the poorly laid-out grocery stores, and I can't find anything in my mess of a house. Other than a tub of spackle that Grace is always toting around.
But there are plusses. We love our backyard, and spend many evenings there. Grace
loves to collect rocks and pile them on the steps. There are nice people in the ward, but amazingly no other residents with kids. I have been getting to know some of the other residents' wives, there is a second year Uro resident whose wife has taken me under her wing, and they have a little boy a couple weeks older than Grace. We're going to their house this afternoon, in fact! We were going to swim, but it's raining. Again. No one told us that the weather here is like the Northwest, but with extremely cold winters. Gray, raining every few days. YAY. Oh yeah, I'm talking about plusses now. Umm, Rob has a golden weekend this weekend. We're going to spend it knocking the wall down, YAY!!!!! Rob would put that on his list of minuses, but this isn't his post... We really don't have before and after pictures of anything yet, since the only project we've really completed is buying new appliances. But once we do, we'll post them. Don't hold your breath or anything. Ummm, I guess that's about it for now. I better go put up child locks (finally) so that Grace will stop throwing hairspray down the laundry chute.
Take care,
Julie
1 comment:
Whoa. Grace has grown up in just the past few months that I haven't seen her! She looks so cute with her rocks.
I know what you mean about being lost, Julie. It's like that here, too. The first time I went out to go to the grocery store, it took me 2.5 hours to find it. No joke. It's like no forethought or planning went into the placement of things and zoning doesn't exist here at all. It's very frustrating.
Anyway, wanted to share your sentiments. Have a good golden weekend! You're so lucky. Brandon has one next week but doesn't have any days off this weekend and has worked 110 this week already. He had to tally them up last night for his attending or whoever. It's outrageous. And against the law I might add.
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