Thursday, June 23, 2011

This morning, Joe preached at the bank at 7:30.  At Barclays Bank, they have devotions every Thursday before they start work.  Joe is hoping that we will have some of the bank employees visit our church as a result of his going there every week.  

He was waiting for the post office to open to try to pick up some packages.  So, he went to a restaurant and had breakfast while he waited.  While he was there, he got to talking to a man from Belgium.  Come to find out, he is the brother of a man that Joe met on his trip to France and Belgium a few years ago.  The man that Joe met was the equivalent of a governor in Belgium; he cleared his schedule to give the men that were with Joe a tour of the city of Liege, Belgium.  One of the men that was with Joe had liberated that city in World War II.  It is a small world!  Joe is always running into people like that.

When Joe went to the post office, he found out that packages can only be picked up in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

When Joe got back home, he took the kids with him to go get the plumbing parts that they needed for the pool.  They took Kristine and I to the taxi station.  Then, Joe made the necessary repairs, and they started filling the pool.  It will take a couple days to get it filled.  Joe also found a store in town where he can get all of the chemicals and pool supplies; that stuff should be in on Monday.  Joe said that the kids ran around that pool so many times that they went straight to bed for nap time without complaint.  

Kristine and I went to the Han Palace, a good Chinese restaurant in town.  We had a good time of fellowship.  The food was good too.  Then, we went to the post office to get the packages.  The man at the window told us to wait a minute because "She was coming."  He is the one who inspects the packages, but he had to wait for the lady who finds the package on the shelf and brings it to him.  We waited for about ten minutes for her to come back.  She brought the packages, and we were in business.  On the way home, we stopped at All Needs Prestige.  I had never been in there before.  We found real bacon bits and Swiss Miss cocoa packets.  

When we got home, the kids were still asleep.  When they woke up, they had to go check on the pool progress.  The whole bottom of the pool is covered with water now.  

We opened the packages before supper.  The kids had fun doing that.

After supper, the kids got their new paint books out right away.  Each page had its own painting pallet at the bottom of the page, and a q-tip can be used for the paint brush.  Pretty clever!

When Joe was locking the gate, he discovered that Straw, our kitten, had gotten her first mouse.  She needs some milk for that!

A demain,

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie