This is the view up our hill from the park. Our building is like the second from the top on the right.

The girls swinging at the local park. The swings are low which is great for Olive but not so ideal for Netta. Netta has of course found a way to make them fun - by jumping off them.
Here she is about to jump.
Olive climbing the stairs on the play structure at the park to get to the "weeeeeee" which is always too hot to slide down. She tried it once and was not happy and remembers this each time and doesn't want to try again - smart girl.

The play structure with the swings up the hill behind it.

Netta took this one of Olive.

We went to Cosco tonight and I am pooped. Nothing like a huge store with two levels of enormous stuff to wear me out. Joe took us which was great because without a car you have to carry all that gigantic stuff home on the subway.

There was so much great stuff that we have been missing like cheese and coffee. They even had a huge package of digestive biscuits - yum! But no English tea - thankfully we have some coming our way! It was really hard to restrain myself -especially with my huge new refrigerator just waiting to be filled...

So we spent too much and came home and tried to cram it all in our small house.

When we went back to the car to load up and come home we were blocked in by another car parked directly behind us.
John asked, "Joe what do we do - we can't get out?"
Joe just said, "We just push it out of the way."
"Really?"
" Yep", he said "it is in neutral so we just push it back and drive out."
Wow that was new for John and I.

Joe said that at his house he parks and then people push his car so that sometimes it is in a very different place in the morning. He said you also have to be sure that you park straight or else your car gets pushed into the road or curb and blocks things. This is wacky - huh?

Our house is starting to feel like a home.