First Things First

Hey kids :)

I just had to figure out what to click to sign in just now because even though I chose English for this page, it still has the commands in Dutch...It is surprisingly similar to English in a lot of ways, though, so I guessed right on my second try. Then it figured out that I really truly did want English, and switched for me.

I jotted a whole long post about our entry to the country and our first couple of days on my laptop last night, expecting to finally be able to post, and then... I promptly ran my laptop battery down to nothing, and realized that we left the plug adapter at Matt's office yesterday. So, until he gets home this evening with the plug adapter so I can recharge, you'll have to be happy with a "to be continued" post. By the way, the quotation mark key is on the shift button of the 2 key, and the "@" is on the key where the quotation marks should be. This is gonna take some getting used to in all kinds of ways...

It's pouring a lovely rain that the ducks are enjoying outside the hotel in the only canal I've seen yet. We're supposed to go to the actual city this evening. Jet lag has kept us close to the nest so far. Tomorrow we present ourselves to the local immigration authority to let them know we're here, and legal, not criminal types or anything. The housing tour got pushed to Friday. We're still a little wobbly on our preference of where to live. Everyone says the City Center is the place to be, especially if it's only for 6 months. So far, we've enjoyed being a little off the beaten track, and public transport has been fine for getting Matt to work. We'll see how that goes now that it's raining...

Back to work for me too. I need to make contact with the hall here still so I can see about service this week. I still don't know where we'll live, so I don't exactly know what Hall we'll be in, but I still want to get some service going. More later,

Cheers. (I don't know how to say that in Dutch yet)