Photos

Photos are up on my photo album site from the first few days here. In the middle of loading them onto facebook the power cut, so now facebook is giving me problems. Power cuts are very common here and usually the generators kick in pretty instantly...last night it took the systems about 10 minutes to kick in though. One of the quirks of this place. :)

We've done a lot of recovering from jet lag around home here, but yesterday we did get out to Bsous to the silk factory museum there. It was super interesting and the gardens there were amazing. I'm really glad we went!

As some of you may have gathered, yes, a frickin spider (we think) bit MY EYE. It happened in the middle of the night and was really painful. It is still tender today, but not too bad. Luckily it was my upper eyelid area and, oh yeah, WASN'T POISONOUS. I was pretty traumatized! Everyone polled here claims to never even heard of anyone getting bitten by a spider or even stung by a bee here. How (un)lucky am I?!?!

Today dad A. will fly in to Lebanon from Dubai and we'll all get to be together on one continent finally. Other than that, we're playing it by ear. Like now I'm going to have tea and biscuits outside in the gorgeous weather. Ummmm, it's been gorgeous every day...300 days of sunshine this lovely place has. Enjoy the pictures!

A pretty happy birthday!

Of course, High School Musical cake courtesy of my ever-talented mums


Some notes:
1) Yes, we have a deer head in our dining room
2) My husband almost always ends up lighting candles at my family birthdays. Every time. This amuses me.
3) High School Musical signage everywhere
4) Amazing pretzel dip and pretzels sitting on the table
5) Dad - wearing some sharp lookin dress pants (he gets fashion snaps for today!)
6) She ended up with 3 boyfriends, in case you wanted to know!



Classic Savannah... I let her know the poster was LIFE SIZE TROY from HSM and this was her reaction! hee hee.


Mmmmm strawberry ice cream. (notice the HSM pillow next to me and the HSM sign on our windows.... above the couch was a whole HAPPY BIRTHDAY HSM banner)


Ok, this is the FUNNIEST picture from today. We asked Jonah bebe to "smile and say cheese" -- I think he was afraid of flash cuz this was the reaction we got! That's my grandpa (Jonah's great-grandpa) in the background laughing hysterically!



Some other notes:
- A fun time had by all.
- My little brother made the paper for scoring the game-winning 3 pointer at his bball tournament! whoot! Apparently it was one of those moments with seconds left on the clock, down by two, everyone chanting for him to shoot, shoot! - so he did!
- We found a news snippet from 30 years ago in a local paper which read: My dad's aunt was a guest at the home of my grandparents for my dad's 2nd birthday. Ahhh, the days when "guests" for parties were reported in the local papers! amazing.
- Savannah only had 3 outfit changes for her birthday. I'm suprised it wasn't 6 or 7.
- The food highlights were the blueberry cream cheese thing my mom made, the pretzel dip by 'reenie beenie, and strawberry spinach salad from jeanie beanie.

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