More Park Time and Meeting more People

Today we spent the day without the car. Dustin worked from home and had a business meeting at the clubhouse. The boys and I, as the weather was the best it had been so far, spent the morning at the park. We hit the two farthest parks and had a great time walking between them all. At the last park, I ran into one of the lady's I had met the night before. I was able to talk to her for a little longer and found out she was from Minneapolis. One of the great hints that she gave me is that the Carrefour that we shop at has a web site that you can order food to be delivered to your house. The best part is there is no fee for this to be done. After this park, we headed home for lunch and naps.
After naps we invited Dustin to take a break and we all headed over to the clubhouse to get an ice cream cone. This was a good idea except that Josh wanted one for himself (he was sharing mine) and would fuss everytime I took it away from him. After the ice cream cone, Dustin headed back to the house to work and we continued on to the park behind our house. Our friends from the previous day were not there, but I was able to meet a nice women from Denmark. Her son had a tractor similar to one we have at home and I felt so bad when Danny said we need to bring ours here (knowing that this is extremely unlikely). Kathryn has been living here for 10 years, so there is no telling when or how she got this riding toy. On our way home, I ran into another of the women from yesterday. She was heading to the playground and I had such an urge to turn around and go back, but I thought that would be really silly. I am sure I will have plenty of time to get to know them better. (Her daughter will be going to school with Danny in the fall).
We ended the evening with dancing to our I-pod (I am sure our neighbors love us as we had it fairly loud) and then headed upstairs for baths. Upon trying to draw the bath, I found there was no hot water. Dustin called the office, and they assured us in an hour we would have hot water . As it was already late, we put the boys to bed with plans for a bath tomorrow. Tomorrow should be a full day as I am heading to the Gubei Carrefour (the largest that is somewhat near us--it is forty minutes away) and the City Supermarket (an import store--in search of brown sugar and some other incidentals from home).