catching up
5/28/06
We’ve arrived! We have been here for a few days and it has definitively been interesting. Let’s discuss the plane ride. It was the longest ride of my life and Rob and I have spent days on buses in the 3rd world. This was of a different sort. The whole time my mind kept referring back to the phrase, “holy crap”. Saniya did really well as a whole. I know the people in front of us hate us to no end. I know I told Saniya to keep her feet off the chair in front of her at least 50 times. Then Rowan was kicking around and would not sleep for hours when everyone else was sleeping. He would cry and squirm. Great times! But in all it went well. No missing luggage, no delays, taxi took us to our new place and it was great! Fully furnished in Ikea attire. Very sleek and functional. We even have a washer/dryer. The best part is the Rob’s new boss met us when we arrived and had bought an entire house full of food! It was so awesome. The frig and the cupboards were filled! What a great gift when you have been up for 24hours and are so tired with the shell shocked little ones. How thoughtful this Swede is. Also the food is so yummy and real here. Everything tastes so fresh.
We are now in the middle of jet lag issues. How do you tell a baby and preschooler that you are supposed to be sleeping when they feel like being awake? We are on night two of up at 1 to 2 and then no one is back to sleep until 4-5. It makes me wish for the days of jet lag amongst adults. Where those days of making yourself are stay up and hallucinate the first day and then it is done. A baby would really fly with that, would he? We’ll see how long it takes to adjust.
Saniya misses her friends. We put up some pictures on the fridge and she got very sad, so we tool them down for awhile. We talked of calling them on the computer, but internet isn’t working until Monday. We are definitely in a bubble. I was reading the newspaper in Swedish and thought this is what it is like to wake up with amnesia and not know how to do anything.
5/29/06
I think the biggest adjustment for me right now is being in a city again. Eugene was small and easy. I am comfortable not understanding anyone and being a foreigner. But, the largeness and energy of a city is exciting and a bit overwhelming. Stockholm is an extremely clean and maneuverable city. It is just the size and options I need time with. We went to see a Nordic ship from 1623 that sank and was raised and then restored about 40 years ago. It is completely intact and was impressive as to how well preserved it is. Today we are heading to IKEA to pick up house wares and a highchair. Everyone has strollers with big wheels for the snow. Kind of funny. They are smaller than the jogger strollers at home, but with rubber tires. Rob starts work in 3 days. The institute looks impressive. It is the center for disease control for Europe and feels like there are people from all over here to do medical research. Rob told me it is the largest medical university in the world. We are both feeling lucky to be here. It’s exciting! A side bar is that it is 4 am and Saniya and I are up. Rowan was up from 1 to 2 am. The jet lag is getting better, because we kept them out all day yesterday, but it’s not perfect. Maybe in a few more days.
(Sidebar from Saniya)
TO SAM:
We are in Sweden. We slept on the airplane and mommy woke me up and I was really tired because we were starting to land. I am eating chocolate (Nutella) on my bread right now. I am really messy. Yesterday we wanted to take a boat to an island, but we missed it by accident, so instead we took the bus and we went over a bridge and then we sat down and put my purple pants on under my skirt. It was REALLY cold!
TO ISAAC:
Yesterday when we were walking around the city, we got to the boat and we couldn’t get on by accident and then we took a bus and then we went home and took a nap and then we got up. We slept on the airplane. Our car is gone and we had a rental car and we slept at a hotel and then Daddy returned the rental car. We needed a cart at the airport so we could put all of our stuff in it, because we couldn’t carry it because it was a lot of stuff. We used the washing machine here and washed Rowan’s rattle and it changed colors because we put in some clothes that were dark and it changed all of the other clothes in the wash. So it dyed everything. How did it do that? My shirt and underwear was dyed too.
Hope to hear from you all soon!
-Yasmiene
We’ve arrived! We have been here for a few days and it has definitively been interesting. Let’s discuss the plane ride. It was the longest ride of my life and Rob and I have spent days on buses in the 3rd world. This was of a different sort. The whole time my mind kept referring back to the phrase, “holy crap”. Saniya did really well as a whole. I know the people in front of us hate us to no end. I know I told Saniya to keep her feet off the chair in front of her at least 50 times. Then Rowan was kicking around and would not sleep for hours when everyone else was sleeping. He would cry and squirm. Great times! But in all it went well. No missing luggage, no delays, taxi took us to our new place and it was great! Fully furnished in Ikea attire. Very sleek and functional. We even have a washer/dryer. The best part is the Rob’s new boss met us when we arrived and had bought an entire house full of food! It was so awesome. The frig and the cupboards were filled! What a great gift when you have been up for 24hours and are so tired with the shell shocked little ones. How thoughtful this Swede is. Also the food is so yummy and real here. Everything tastes so fresh.
We are now in the middle of jet lag issues. How do you tell a baby and preschooler that you are supposed to be sleeping when they feel like being awake? We are on night two of up at 1 to 2 and then no one is back to sleep until 4-5. It makes me wish for the days of jet lag amongst adults. Where those days of making yourself are stay up and hallucinate the first day and then it is done. A baby would really fly with that, would he? We’ll see how long it takes to adjust.
Saniya misses her friends. We put up some pictures on the fridge and she got very sad, so we tool them down for awhile. We talked of calling them on the computer, but internet isn’t working until Monday. We are definitely in a bubble. I was reading the newspaper in Swedish and thought this is what it is like to wake up with amnesia and not know how to do anything.
5/29/06
I think the biggest adjustment for me right now is being in a city again. Eugene was small and easy. I am comfortable not understanding anyone and being a foreigner. But, the largeness and energy of a city is exciting and a bit overwhelming. Stockholm is an extremely clean and maneuverable city. It is just the size and options I need time with. We went to see a Nordic ship from 1623 that sank and was raised and then restored about 40 years ago. It is completely intact and was impressive as to how well preserved it is. Today we are heading to IKEA to pick up house wares and a highchair. Everyone has strollers with big wheels for the snow. Kind of funny. They are smaller than the jogger strollers at home, but with rubber tires. Rob starts work in 3 days. The institute looks impressive. It is the center for disease control for Europe and feels like there are people from all over here to do medical research. Rob told me it is the largest medical university in the world. We are both feeling lucky to be here. It’s exciting! A side bar is that it is 4 am and Saniya and I are up. Rowan was up from 1 to 2 am. The jet lag is getting better, because we kept them out all day yesterday, but it’s not perfect. Maybe in a few more days.
(Sidebar from Saniya)
TO SAM:
We are in Sweden. We slept on the airplane and mommy woke me up and I was really tired because we were starting to land. I am eating chocolate (Nutella) on my bread right now. I am really messy. Yesterday we wanted to take a boat to an island, but we missed it by accident, so instead we took the bus and we went over a bridge and then we sat down and put my purple pants on under my skirt. It was REALLY cold!
TO ISAAC:
Yesterday when we were walking around the city, we got to the boat and we couldn’t get on by accident and then we took a bus and then we went home and took a nap and then we got up. We slept on the airplane. Our car is gone and we had a rental car and we slept at a hotel and then Daddy returned the rental car. We needed a cart at the airport so we could put all of our stuff in it, because we couldn’t carry it because it was a lot of stuff. We used the washing machine here and washed Rowan’s rattle and it changed colors because we put in some clothes that were dark and it changed all of the other clothes in the wash. So it dyed everything. How did it do that? My shirt and underwear was dyed too.
Hope to hear from you all soon!
-Yasmiene
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