A Day with Friends

After all the scare with Josh's arm, he is still doing great and back to his usual happy self.

Today we headed out early (6:30 am) to go see our friends. The guys joined a group of other men from our firends' neighborhood that goes bike riding every Sunday morning (church here is in the afternoon, so you can do something most of the day and still attend church). The boys and I stayed with Amber and her son. We had to leave so early because they live across the city on the other side of the river and the bike ride leaves at 8am.

I will let Dustin blog about the bike ride, but I will just say that they were gone for a couple of hours, and they went off road bike riding. (A little different from what Dustin was thinking--he thought it was on the surface streets). However, I believe he had a great time and is looking forward to doing it again.

Amber and I had a fantastic time talking and watching the boys play. They grilled out and we had a great little barbecue lunch. We ended the day with going to church together.

I told Dustin on the way home, you do not realize how much you enjoy just visiting with friends, being in their home and inviting them to yours, until you do not have that for a while. They have been our real first friends here and we are so grateful to have met them. It can be quite lonely and isolating here, and friends make that so much more bearable.

We have a busy week coming up with lots of meetings for Dustin and our first dinner party.