Quick Update

I know Stephen put an update on his blog, but I thought I would do one for anyone who does not read both. We arrived safely Thursday after an uneventful trip.
We were able to see our niece, Kaitlyn, on Monday, and many friends from our church in Baltimore on Tuesday.
We were greeted warmly by some of our fellow students, who helped us unload and begin unpacking. One family in the building has helped us unpack, fed us, given advice and instruction on how to do things here, etc. That has made it so much easier.
Everything is still overwhelming, but we are on our way to being unpacked, Ian and Isabelle are registered for school, and we have at least a few groceries.
When things settle down a little (or I just give up on unpacking), I will post pictures of

On the Road Again (and again and again)

We are on the last stretch of the journey now. We left Eastern Ky today, and are now somewhere in Virginia. Tomorrow, we travel to Baltimore to visit with friends there (briefly) and then on to Pennsylvania to visit more relatives. Our plan is to be at our apartment on Thursday.
As you can see from the picture, we traded in our moving truck for a trailer. We are moving to a furnished apartment, so we had a lot less we needed to take. Before we moved we got rid of quite a few things, and we had some more that we set aside for storage. When we first got to Eastern KY, we went through some of the boxes and found more things to get rid of or put in storage. Still, the trailer is jam packed, as is our car. We started running out of space, and had to find more things to leave behind. Needless to say, it was quite stressful. However, when we get to our small apartment, I'm sure we will be glad to have less stuff with us.
I have more pictures to post from other visits with friends and family, which I will do when I have time and an internet connection. :)

Doctors in Training

These pictures are from one of the last days before we left Browning. Stephen was teaching Isabelle and Caleb how to do infant CPR.

Swimming Pool

Isabelle at the Lake

Ian in the Lake

The Kids on the Boat

On Sunday afternoon, Stephen, Ian and Isabelle went with Jake, Sarah and Amelia on their boat. They had a lot of fun on the boat and swimming in the lake.

Sarah and Jake's Boat

Crafting

On Friday, we traveled to Chattanooga/North Georgia to visit my family. These are pictures of the kids doing some coloring and finger painting.

More Kathleen Pictures

These are the last pictures of our visit to Kathleen.

Playground Collage

Kathleen

After leaving Bulan, we were able to visit Kathleen in North Carolina. We were glad that it worked out. She is moving to Colorado, so it might be awhile before we are able to see her again. These pictures are from Wednesday night.

The Truck

There it is--- our U-Haul-- one of the many times we had to put hundreds of dollars worth of gas in it! Stephen returned it on Wednesday, and we plan to pull a trailer behind our car when we drive to Quebec.

Pictures from Bulan

We arrived in Bulan on Tuesday, and spent Tuesday- Thursday morning there. Here are some pictures from Wednesday.
Caleb is blowing bubbles. (That is some of our miscellaneous stuff in the background.

Isabelle and Ian made some sidewalk chalk pictures.

Stephen and the kids slept out in the tent Tuesday night. Caleb had to come inside halfway through the night though!

Some of our belongings unloaded from the truck.