Being an Adult

Well, after yesterday I can officially say that I am an adult. I am past the years of college and have entered into my 23rd year of life. I am almost into my mid-20's and it is quite a scary thing to think about. Here are a few highlights of the events that unfolded on my birthday.

1.) In the morning, we went up to a place high in the mountains called Camp David to have breakfast with our principal. It was absolutely beautiful and was a great start to a wonderful day. Also up at the camp were several cars that belonged to a past dictator in the DR named Trujillo. One of those cars just happened to be a Fleetwood Cadillac. Jon was pretty excited about that. We included two pictures of him with the car.

2.) Another couple (Diane and Raul Moya--Raul is Dominican.) here who is very familiar with the area and where to get good deals came over to do some shopping with us. You see, part of the deal when we came here is that we were allowed to use someone else's furniture until December when that family returned. It was such a huge blessing to come here and not have to buy furniture right away, but the family will be returning in about 3 weeks and we haven't bought a single piece of furniture. So, the Moya's took us out shopping for good souveniers, but we ended up buying a kitchen table. We have finally made out first furniture purchase as a married couple. The funny thing is that we weren't expecting to actually buy any furniture yet so we didn't have enough money with us. We thought that we were going to have to go back to our apartment to get money, but the furniture company told us that we could just pay them when they delivered the table. They followed us home that day, we paid them, and they set up the table for us. Talk about a quick delivery.

3.) The Moya's stayed at our apartment for a few hours to break in our new table. We taught them how to play "Dutch Blitz" which was quite hilarious because Raul is Dominican and doesn't speak all the greatest English. He was so funny trying to understand how to play the game. He kept cheating but not knowing it at all. The good thing is that I got to practice a lot of Spanish. I think I spoke more Spanish in that 2 hours that I have the whole time I was here. We had such a wonderful time.

4.) The day ended with dinner out (just Jon and I) at an Italian restaurant here in Santiago. I have been wanting to go there for a long time and Jon promised to take me for my birthday. It reminded us a lot of The Old Spaghetti Factory. The food was amazing and for the first time we felt very "at home." And we got to have ice cream after dinner.

I had a wonderful birthday. Thank you everyone who thought about me and sent me birthday wishes!