thereyougothen

today they boys and I went shoe shopping in the morning - amazingly all three of us got new shoes. and at outlet prices too. i don't know how difficult it will be to gt shoes for them in Chile, we've been told that Bill will struggle to get trousers and shoes, so I decided that since both boys have very wide feet and high insteps, i would get them some shoes to keep us going for a while at least. if we are lucky these will do us until christmas, and we will hopefully being going up to the US then. but we might have no trouble at all with shoes. who knows?

you know, we hardly know anything about this place we're going to live in for the next 5 years. and actually, i'm kinda enjoying the fact...

in the hope of encouraging my family to keep a journal of sorts of their experiences, i've set up a family blog. so far it has copies of all these xx sleeps posts. I'm hoping that I can get Thomas at least to contribute to it. i will try and make it interesting with photos and stuff like that. just not today.

after shoe shopping (which also included a stop at the paper mill shop and the purchase by TT of a huge happy birthday rubber stamp [what? what do you mean what did I buy? *looks innocent*]) we went to another shopping centre and met