We are in France!!

We are finally expats! Things were a little touch and go there for a bit back in the spring/summer regarding when we would actually leave and where we would be going, but here we are in France about to start language school in less than a week!

(Our living room/dining room with a beautiful view! We are very close to the Orly airport so Amelia has constant entertainment watching the planes coming and going!)

We arrived at 6:00 am. Michael had arranged a van for us to be transported from the airport to our school/apartment. So glad he did! 10 bags and 4 people would have been a sight on public transportation! We arrived and showered and took a nice nap – all four of us! – and then walked about a quarter of a mile to our school to introduce ourselves. We met a few other families who are also attending Le Cedres. We got some tips from a few people who have been here a while and walked another 0.5 miles to the grocery store, Cora. It’s like French Walmart…maybe even bigger. A guy who we just met at the school literally came to find us in the store to bring us a grocery cart (like the ones you can walk home with from the market) and told us he has a car and was free to wait for us/help us in the store until we finished so he could drive us back with all of our “set up” groceries!!! What a kind/generous/thoughtful thing! So fun to see how God looks out for us and takes care of us even in the little details of life! Also, the girls were getting fussy so I ended up just walking back with them and Michael and our new friend stayed and did all the grocery shopping!

Thankfully, Michael speaks un petit Francais, however there were a few little hiccups on our grocery trip. Example one – we wanted creamer for our coffee and ended up buying some sort of thick cream that you would put, say, I don’t know, on your fruit or something like the picture shows on the front cover (hand on forehead). Good news though! It still tastes great in coffee!!!