Misc.
Topic: This and That
I'm afraid nothing too exciting has been going on the last couple of days. I didn't want to go too long without a post though. There are some random things I've been meaning to include somewhere in here. There's a restaurant called, "Damn Yankee" near our house. I think that's pretty funny! They serve, "American" style food. In a magazine I read some advice from various famous chefs about choosing restaurants. One of the chefs said to avoid places abroad that serve, "American" food. I agree! Larry and I ate at a place like that when we were in Scotland a few years back, and it wasn't very good at all.
Today Ryan had a sort of well baby appointment. Our healthcare situation here is weird. We get part of our care on the base, and part on the economy (the National Healthcare System, or NHS). The NHS has a slightly different schedule of checkup and shots for infants. The base doesn't do well baby checkups, but they DO do the shots. So today Ryan's appointment was at an NHS doctor. They didn't really do much besides look at him and weigh him. He's doing really well and I don't have any concerns, so there wasn't much to the appointment. The people were really nice though, and unlike in the States, they encourage you to give them a call if you have any questions or need anything.
I've met my next door neighbors. They are really nice. They are a British couple with four kids, and they all love Ryan! Tomorrow I am getting together with a girl whose phone number I got from the WIC lady on base. Hopefully we will hit it off. It would be nice to have some friends here.
Knock on wood, there have been no more Enormous Spider sightings.
The weather was great today, warm and sunny.
I got a running stroller a week or so ago and I am really frustrated because one of the forks is bent so it won't go straight. I am going to try to find a place that can fix it asap. There are a limited number of nice days left here, so I want to be able to run in them as much as possible. Speaking of running, there's a local running club here that I want to join as soon as I'm in good enough shape to keep up with their slowest group. *grin*
I can't believe tomorrow Ryan and I will have been here four weeks. The time is flying by. I still need to sort out my stuff. I only have so much free time though. Ryan didn't even take his afternoon nap today!
I hope everyone is doing well. I am working on a website for Ryan's and my summer vacation. I can't believe summer is almost over. That flew by, too. I hope you all had a great one.
One more thing I can't believe: Ryan's first birthday is coming up in less than two weeks! We are flying back to Germany for his party. I am really looking forward to it. It will be great to see my friends there!
Enough babbling. I hope to get out and around some more soon and have some more daytrips to tell you about.