UN Fridge

Yes, one of the fun things about living overseas is to look in your fridge. It really is a like a meeting of the United Nations. Although most of our food is from India, many other countries are represented in the cupboard and fridge! For example, I looked a few mintues ago and here's some countries represented:

South Africa: juice
France: yogurt
Denmark: jam/jelly
Singapore: roast almonds
Indonesia: cookies
Britain: ketchup
USA: maple syrup

By the way, the best news in a long time was when our grocery store started carrying tortilla chips made locally a few months ago!

The big change: early to bed...

With all three kids, around the age of 2-3 months they went from a 9-10pm bedtime to a 5-6pm bedtime. And...Bella joined the club sometime over the last week! It's nice because Libby now has a little more free time to exercise or do whatever.

In other random news, we've had some unbelieveable "only in India" days lately. Last night the fireworks were going at 11pm and again at 2:30am which put Shane into tears. (They were from a nearby wedding reception hall and someone was celebrating.) Then the power went out from 3-7am which meant no air conditioners, but luckily it was raining a bit and bearable. In fact, the rain might have knocked out the power...

Saturday was another challenging day. Flat tire. Tried to get it fixed, but shop didn't open til 10am and we needed to be across town to meet friends. Tried to change it myself, but tools didn't work right. Called a taxi but that took 45 min. to arrive. It all turned out good with nice taxi driver, the right price ($9 for a 40 min ride) and friend who gave us a ride home. Power was then out for 6 hours, the sewage people cleaned nearby drain and put human waste near our gate, etc. And then the tire shop wouldn't fix my tire since they have recently switched to only servicing tubeless tires. At least they put the spare tire on for $1.25.

It is all survivable. And we're thankful the monsoon is here. And Bella is sleeping early!