Super Saturday

Happy Weekend Everybody!  Yay!  We started our morning off by skyping with family and friends.  How COOL is Skype!?  We were able to carry the laptop around the yard and house and give them the 'tour' of our new locale.  We gave Salomi and Shashi the weekend off so we were in the kitchen fending for ourselves for breakfast.  We have come to realize we did a pretty terrible job of packing up items in our air shipment.  No dishes, no spices, we have lids to certain containers but the containers we need are still floating around in a container in the ocean somewhere (hoping it will all arrive before Halloween?!).  We also should have packed some sort of table/folding chairs - Luckily, our driver, Cladius, had a dining room table with 6 chairs that his family wasn't using so he brought over all sorts of goodies for us.  The dining room set, a living room set and several rugs (because with the marble floors and concrete walls the house echoes like crazy!)  If it wasn't for Cladius we'd all be sitting on the floor for several more weeks.  One thing we did think to bring with us is air mattresses.  We've been sleeping on them since we moved into the house.  Every night, I get out the battery operated pump and top off all the mattresses.  Of course, the queen size one that Matt and I brought for ourselves popped the first night (get your minds out of the gutter...not because of "that")  I think it's more the...we need to go on a diet thing! ;0)  Yep.  So literally after night one and bottoming out all night long (nothing like sleeping in the shape of a "V" as your bum is saggin' on the floor and your feet are pointing to the heavens!) we got up and with a cough, choke and a wheeze the mattress breathed its final breath with a silent P O O O O F - and with that she gave up the ghost.  Luckily, we had arranged to purchase a set of beds from the previous owner of our villa - So the boys are sleeping on their new beds and Matt and I have taken claim to the boys twin air mattresses.  All in all, these "Single Sleepers" seem to be holding up much better then their "Queen" competition.  What's up wit dat?!  Poor Old Girl, may she rest in peace.  I can tell you one thing, by the time our sea shipment shows up and we are able to sleep in a "real bed" again my aching bod will be awfully thankful to see that moving truck.

Breakfast consisted of pancakes that were LOADED with butter b/c we couldn't keep those stinkin' flap jacks from sticking to the pan (yep, yet another thing we didn't bring along..NON-STICK pans), bacon and eggs.  Obviously, the pancakes tasted AMAZING!!  (Doesn't butter make everything better?)  But I'm pretty sure as Erica would say with her best British accent, "Mummy.  Did your butt grow in the night?!"  that those pancakes will be sticking with me for quite some time :/

We also have come to find out that David loves to make his "rounds" on Saturday mornings.  We live in a big gated community and the kids are always riding their bikes all over the place, playing at the playground or swimming in the pool.  I feel like it's a throwback to the days when you played in the streets, didn't wear bike helmets, and were home by dark.  It's old school and I LIKE it! :)  It seems to be the unwritten rule that all the neighborhood kids go back to their own houses by 6:30 pm.  

The last couple of Saturdays mornings the kids have been waking up at the Butt Crack of Dawn and are either begging to jump on the trampoline or ride their bikes etc and what the neighbors don't realize is that when we let them all lose at 7:00 am - They've already been up since 5:00 am and drivin' us crazy!  HAHA!  Anyhow, so last week, we find out that David has gone down the street to Matt's bosses house (yep, lives on our same road!) and watched a little Spongebob Squarepants with Steve, requested that Steve make coffee for Matt and I, discussed really important life issues like "Do you have gum!? and "Don't you have any toys here?!" and so when Steve came down to the house a couple of hours later with two piping hot cups of coffee & Steve was saying, "Yah, I wasn't sure if you really sent David down to ask for coffee or not so I thought I'd bring some over" Matt and I both shared glances of "Say What?!" and David looked up and smiled with his big one tooth grin and said, "Yah.  I ordered those for you!"  Hahah!  Then when one of Erica's friends from school came to the door at about 10:00 this morning she informed us that David had been knocking on their door at 8:00 to see if she and her brother wanted to play.  How lovely!  Needless to say, we had to sit down "Brady Bunch" style and have a family pow-wow about what time of day you can go rat-a-tat-tatting on someones door and making sure Mom and Dad know where you are blah blah blah. :)  I do like it though!  I like that I have a yard full of neighborhood kids that are here until it starts to get dark or until the mosquito man rides through the neighborhood.  (Ideally, you get home before he comes through though because he could care less if you're standing on the street corner or not)....Think of the Wicked Witch of the West riding on her rickety 'ole bicycle, except this guy is on a motor scooter/motorcycle/mo-ped of sorts and it's the LOUDEST thing you've ever heard!!  It sounds like it's powered by my grandmother's 1950's Hoover vacuum and it makes this crazy-stinky fog that looks like it should be in some sort of Scooby Doo cartoon.  Whether you hear the whizzing of his motor or see the haze from his machine - You KNOW you better get home quick or you'll just be another victim of the "Mosquito Man"!!

We spent our afternoon at the pool, playing tennis and shopping for a mini-vacuum (no luck finding what we want yet) and eating at this amazing little French restaurant called Chez Mariannick. 

Me - Outside The Chez Mariannick

The front of The Chez

They are known for making the most delicious homemade breads, quiches and brick oven cooked pizzas.  Oh dear.  (Should we discuss my diet strategy?  Clearly, I don't have one!)  Haha!  We ate outside at table made out of stone and then afterwards met the owner and she took us to the back where the make the bread and let us pick out what we liked...which meant more BREAD for supper...Can't you just hear my gut growing?!

Little Too Sunny for Erica - She borrowed my sunglasses ;)

Walking back to the car - Bellies Full!

Lifeguard Mikey now On Duty

David Making a Big Splash in the Pool

Then,  Home again Home Again - Jiggety Jig where even Daddy got in on the street fun.  He ended up playing soccer (ooh!  I stand corrected...Futbol!) with some of the neighborhood kids.

Although our children wonder why you and Big Pop-Pop keep getting "Circle Haircuts" ----You're only as old as you feel! 

 I have a feeling you will always be Young at Heart!!

He stepped in as goalie for part of the time and told the boys that if they scored on him he'd pay them 10 rupees per goal.  I think he ended up owing them over 100 rupees!  Hahahah!

All in all - We have had a great Bangalore Day!  Trying out a church tomorrow. Nighty Night!