WOW!! We have been here one month and 4 days. It seems like we just arrived yesterday. We have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time. We have a car, a house, an ahma (live in nanny/maid) scheduled to start at the end of the month, and we both have our driver's liscenses. We have been busy since we got here.
We are all settled into our house and are now awaiting our things to arrive. Our initial shipment (1000 lbs) should be here any day. Our other things (furniture and hosuehold goods) should be here by early August. We purchased a new 55" Sony 3D TV and it arrived yesterday. We are really excited about it. Right now, we are living with loaner furniture. We have a sofa, chair, side table, tv stand, queen bed, twin bed and a table and chairs for dining. It's not much, but it lets us live in our house.
We celebrated the 4th here by going to a celebrtaion in the field right at the bottom of the hill we live on. It was nice being able to walk to the festivities. There were food booths, activities for children and live music. Bella had a blast and when we came home, we were able to see the fireworks out our living room window. That was nice.
Also right down from our house is a pool and restaurant (like a country club). It is very nice and we are thankful to have it so close to our house. We are making more friends and getting out and seeing things. Jonathan and I signed up to go on an Antique tour in July and a cultural tour in August. These should be interesting.
For those of you who are not avid facebook users, we had to have our dog, Jack, put to sleep last week. We left him with Jonathan's parents and he absolutely loved their place. He could run and play outside and they took great care of him. He started not eating and not wanting to play. They took him to the vet and x-rays showed that it was almost postively cancer in his intestines. We had to make the tough decision to put him down, but we know that he did not suffer. He would have been 11 next month and he was our first baby. My heart is still sad :( I am so thankful to have such wonderful in-laws who took such great care of him.
Here are some pictures of what's been happening around here. Hope you enjoy :)
Durian Fruit: It has been banned on all transportation here because it is so smelly.
It is supposed to be delisious if you can get past the smell. Our apartment smelled for 2 days and it was only in there for about 2 minutes.
Can't you tell by Jonathan's face that it was really good. Ha ha!!
Celebrating the 4th!
There's a monkey in our tree :)
Jonathan's new task is to get a cocunut for Bella out of the cocunut tree. He is trying to learn how to climb it. 
Kitchen
Another view of the kitchen
Looking down the stairs (this is the entrance to the house)
Top of stairs looking into living room
Standing in kitchen looking through dining to living room
Living room
More living room (we think it used to be an open porch)
Hallway to bedrooms
Bella's bathroom
Bella's room
Our room
View from hallway window
another view
View of house across the street