A Little Less Homesick...

Slowly, we are starting to get settled in here. Saturday was a big step in that direction.

It started off with pancakes. Lily and I make pancakes almost every Saturday. Last week, I tried to wing it with the ingredients that we had at the house and no recipe. The result was more like rubbery flour disks than pancakes. This week, though, we found a pancake mix, so as Lily said, "The pancakes are not as hard this week." She didn't seem to notice the syrup was just melted brown sugar and butter.

Then, we took a trip to the market, held every Saturday in the old city section of Hyères. There, we bought most of our fruits and vegetables for the week. We met up with some friends, and had them teach us where to go, who to buy from, when it is too late to buy melons, what all these strange looking roots are, and how to buy a certain quantity of cheese, etc.

For lunch, we ate at a little pizzeria. Word to the wise, look at the menu closely, I was happily working through a calzone, when I discovered the addition of an ingredient that I wasn't expecting, an egg, gooey and oozing, right in the middle. Turns out, eggs are a pretty popular ingredient in the things where we wouldn't normally expect them.

When the kids were napping, Sarah went to the mall to check out the 'soldes' or the sales that stores are only allowed to have during designated times during the year. It's pretty amazing that stores have to wait until specified times to have sales, but maybe that will work in my favor.

But, by far the biggest thing that happened, was a little bit of home sent to us. Sarah's dad set up a Slingbox at their house, which allowed us to watch college football through the internet at our house. So, at 9:30 PM, Sarah and I huddled around the laptop to watch our beloved Ohio State Buckeyes as if we were back home (except for our glasses of the regional wine, rosé, and the fact that we were struggling to stay up for a 3:30 EST game).

So, while we still don't understand a lot of what is going on around us, and don't have a permanent place to live, at least we have a connection back home.