Today we thought we'd be meeting with the local Amstelveen authorities to register our marriage with them. Apparently until we do that, they don't view us as legally married. Anyhow, we had this morning set aside for that, and then got a call from Joost, one of the people helping our transition, that the office is closed today.

So, that at least gave me a little time to unpack some more boxes, and grocery shop to start getting basics back in the house, like ketchup, and salad dressings, spices and breakfast fixings. I think I really will be doing more daily meal shopping here though. The market is a 2 minute walk across the street, and today is Friday. Market day in the square. So when I went out this morning, it was to find the hustle and bustle of a street market instead of just the local Albert Heijn (basically an upscale Safeway).

I also had service plans to meet the afternoon group at 2pm. More wires crossed somehow, and the sister I thought was picking me up, didn't, or got lost or something, so I asked Matt to call her from his mobile (not cell), and hurried off to take a bus. The sister (Christiana Van G.....?) waited patiently for me and then we took the metro to the territory and completed a whole building in the tract work before it started getting dark. This is her on the walk from the territory to yet another metro station to get home. Now, Matt and I are off to the gym...

Yes indeed, we joined a gym last night. It's called Special Sports. This link is already translated by translate.google.com, so sometimes it goes a little wonky when you try to move around. If you want to see what our lives are like lately, trying to read Dutch papers, street maps, and menus, try figuring out what a zonnebank is on the original language web page here. Tonight we have our "intake" which I'm dreading a little because we've fallen far far far off the excersize wagon. I think I might be procrastinating by posting this now...