shadow puppets

Micah gets up every morning before the sun...even before the call to prayer. This is ridiculously early (5:30), but it does offer the awesome benefit of being able to see the sun rise over our hill. It is a beautiful way to start the day...better than Folgers. This morning had brilliant hues of pink in the sky. I love it! The picture doesn't do it justice.


Later in the morning, we got to take advantage of the bright sun for some shadow entertainment.


It was super cold today. - 9C (I'll let you techno-cool folk figure out how much that is in F). We need to find our wooly clothes to keep warm walking about!

We found a neat English bookstore yesterday and immediately purchased some language learning CDs and a great cookbook designed for foreigners here. (conversions, recipes from home with local ingredients, and some jokes to help lighten the stress of cross-cultural living). I'm ecstatic to try and bake some cookies and enchiladas with my new-found vocabulary.

We also found a wonderful woman to take care of Micah. She'll start tomorrow and Rick and I will see how we do with some regimented study time. We tried to get into a language class, but they were all full for this month. So we'll try some language helpers and see again in a month!