Walking Papers

Well, not walking papers, really, since Nathan can't walk yet, and he doesn't have a job which is required to be issued your walking papers now that I think about it...Anyway...more like traveling papers. Nathan's Consular Report of Birth Abroad and US Passport arrived! 

Looks just like me!

Good until 2016? I think I will look a little different by then...

Now there's nothing standing between us and our visit to the States. Except time.

Time, time, time. 11 days to go!

This week marked the return of our morning walk. It's a little different now, for sure. For one, Nathan is on the "outside." Two, because of the stroller, we have to stay off the trail and stick to the roads. It's a lot less beautiful, but it is still hard work. I think we might try to walk with the Moby this weekend...see if that can't get us back to the skywalk.

One bag for about $7.00 USD.
The Toll House were even more expensive!

Today we took the temple path, as I had to drop a couple books off for my friend Sejal, who is due with her baby boy in September, and pick up chocolate chips from our neighborhood foreign market. (Korean chocolate chips just weren't cutting it.  When my parents were here, we splurged on some American food...it was such a treat for us, as we usually don't buy a ton of American items. $10 for Lays, $7 for Cheetos, $18 for a Guiness 6pack, $8 for Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chips...since then I have made several batches of cookies, all with "other chocolate" to try to see if I can master the art of the cookie without Nestle Toll House semi sweet chocolate chips. So far, no dice. But I am getting really good at cookies in a convection oven!)

I digress...

I thought maybe you'd like to go on a walk with us:

First we pass the Norwegian Ambassador's house

Temple (this is the building where we'll do Yoga starting this fall...how cool, right?)

Temple entrance

No, the picture isn't crooked, the incline is just really steep

Inside of the Temple roof

I don't know what it says, but it looks like Chinese. It is for sure not Korean.
Aren't you proud I can tell the difference?

My friend Katja's house (her husband is the Austrian Commercial Counsellor)

  

Hola! Mexican Ambassador's Residence

And guess what? Nathan is six weeks old today. Crazy.

Almost caught this smile...close enough

Check out those hockey feet
(neither of us want to admit his cute feet take after either of us)

Finally, happy birthday to our niece Samantha, who turns three today! :)sbc