Enjoying the nice weather and meeting new friends

Today was another beautiful day and the boys and I spent a good portion of it outside. We spent the morning talking with grandparents and then went to the park. Today was a little different as Dustin left later this morning (he had to get a special receipt from Danny's school for this fall and he went to pick out knives that would actually cut something--our previous set was extremely inexpensive and needless to say you could tell--they cut hardly anything). Since Dustin left later, we decided that I would go to the grocery store when he got home (by the time the car would have returned in the morning, it would have been close to lunch and naps for the boys).
The car came to get us at about 2pm so that we could shop and the car could return to pick up Dustin at a reasonable time. Thankfully, I am getting a little accustomed to the store, but it is still hard to find some items (mostly because they do not have it to sell). On our way to the store, Dustin called to say he was going to need to buy a printer once we got home. So, Dustin left once we arrived home to go with the driver to get the printer. We decided that before Dustin left that the boys and I would go to the park while he was gone and we would just order pizza for dinner (we saw that our neighbors had done this, and so Dustin copied the number down as he drove past).
At the park there were a lot of kids and mothers. Danny was focused almost completely on a group of kids that were about his age playing with an older boy (games like tag and chase). I kept encouraging him to go over and ask if he could play with them (the older boy kept looking in our direction and he was extremely caring to the younger children). Danny mentioned that he felt a little sick to his stomach (his first butterflies), so he kept watching them, but did not go over or play on the equipment. Finally, when they came close to us I brought Danny over and introduced him to the group. A mother took notice and called her son out of the group and made him introduce himself to Danny. Danny quickly went off (they were playing in the grass adjacent to the group of moms) and had a blast. Some of the women came over and introduced themselves to me and asked how long I had been there. They were all extremely nice and I found out that two of them were from Ohio. Shortly after we all sort of disbanded to our own homes for dinner time.
Upon reaching our apartment I placed the call to the pizza place and thanked God that they spoke English (we have found that the shops close to our house have some English speaking workers as there are so many expatriate communities surrounding the shops). I was happy to find there was no charge for delivery and the price was reasonable. I was also found the connection for our Ipod and was able to connect it up and play some music. Dustin arrived home to find us singing to music and getting ready to eat our pizza. It was great to feel more connected with people here in the community and to have some comforts (like pizza and American music) from home as well.