Once again our awesome driver Naveen surprised us by bringing us some different Indian fruits to try (he does this a lot and pays for them every time and won’t let us pay him back). I don’t remember what these were called, but they were SO good. The kids all loved them too. He also brought us a smaller purple fruit that looked a little larger than a purple grape that was super sour. Adam and I didn’t really care for those but the kids loved them! These yellow fruits though had two small brown seeds in the middle. You eat the outside and throw the seeds out.
Afterwards we tried to go rock climbing but it was closed. Then we tried to go to a movie, but we had already seen the ONE kids movie that they were showing. So as a last result we WALKED around the mall. If you know us at all, you know that we are NOT shoppers so this was a big deal. We luckily found a toy story for the kids to look around in and both Brans and Dawson ended up finding some fun things to spend their birthday money from Nana and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa on. Brans got an American flag USA pillow pet bear, and Dawson got a big stuffed Angry bird. Branson’s purchase brought his total of pillow pets to FIVE now. That kid is obsessed. But to each his own. I had a thing for bouncy balls when I was little. đ And Barbies.
As we were getting ready to leave the mall and head home, we happened upon this bungee jump type thing on a trampoline and decided to try it. AND it was only 80 rupees per kid which translates to be less than $1.50 per kid. A STEAL of a deal. So each of the kids decided to try it. Branson went first and I unfortunately only thought to take a video of him, but its probably a good thing because he was literally TERRIFIED of this thing and wanted to come down almost immediately.
Harry went next and was equally scared, but the guy maneuvering the bungee thing got smart and just lowered the bungee to the point that Harry could jump on the tramp and go really high. Harry liked that much better and enjoyed himself after that.
The biggest shock and surprise though was this little guy. He is usually our little fraidy-cat, at least when it comes to getting in water, but he absolutely LOVED this and had this big huge grin on his face the whole time and was laughing! He even went all the way up as high as the bungee could go and jumped almost to the top of the building behind him. Totally shocked Adam and I, but we were glad he enjoyed himself so much!
After the mall we headed home where Adalynn and I took naps while Adam and the boys went swimming at the pool. Afterwards I attempted to make a dinner for us, but because my pots and pans and kitchen items still hadn’t arrived from our shipment its still pretty difficult for me to cook. I did make up a garlic green beans dish with onion straws though, and then cooked up some corn on the cob and then cut up mangos, cantaloupe, and watermelon so that at least tied us over. Then Adam and I put the kids to bed and watched a few episodes of Chuck before heading to bed.
That is one thing both of us are really missing is just “us time” at night. Now that Adam is working from 1pm until midnight (most nights) we rarely get to just spend time together the two of us after the kids are in bed. And our mornings and afternoons are now filled up with “family time” with the kids. Adam and I haven’t figured out how to do date night either since we don’t know anyone that babysits or that can handle four kids and then finding a time that works for Adam is difficult. But hopefully we can find someone soon and start that back up. I think we both will need it to keep our sanity! Or at least I will! ha ha!
We sure do feel blessed to be having this amazing experience though and each day we are learning to adjust a little more and things are getting easier. I’m sure by the end of our 3 months we’ll have almost everything figured out just in time to come home! Isn’t that how life usually works? We are grateful for the chances we have to learn and grow. Life is good. Life is good.