Our Street

We are constantly experiencing new and interesting things in our new life overseas.  Here are just a few of the new things we've gotten to experience this past week on our own street.

Yum yum fish head.  This is actually very surprising because 1) people here usually cook the head along with the fish and eat the whole thing and 2) we have about a million cats in our neighborhood and none of them had eaten this head yet.

For those of you who are wondering about the goat leg, yes, it is still laying in the street.  I have been meaning to take a new updated picture, but it's getting pretty gross so I decided it might not be a good idea.

Random handsome man standing in the street :)

I have just recently realized that I have not put a picture up of the outside of our apartment.  This is it.  We are on the second floor on the right, above the tin covering.

It is also my goal in the near future to make another video.  So, keep a look out :)

Threading

I have always wanted to get my eyebrows threaded.  I had a friend once who said she could do it for me, but I was a little scared and decided not to at the time.  At the gym/spa I go to, they do threading, so today for the first time ever I got my eyebrows threaded!

I can't decide if it hurt worse than waxing your eyebrows.  Waxing is a bigger area, but it's all at once, while threading is less area but lasts longer.  Here are some photos.

They Say You Only Get Married Once...

I should start this blog by backing up a little bit and telling you about how great my husband is.  As you all know, we are currently living overseas, well, we have been here for 4 1/2 months now and are working on getting our residency.  This whole residency thing is a lot bigger of a hassle than we thought it would be in the beginning.  My amazing husband, Andrew, has gone in to the government office every morning this week trying to get all the ins and outs of residency done.  This morning they informed Andrew that they did not believe our marriage license and since we have the same last name, they think we are siblings.  Our marriage license from the states is in black and white, including the stamp and signatures, so they obviously think it is not legit.

So what's the solution?  Get married again!  So, this evening, after going to the gym, we dropped by the local kanisa, or church, to get married again.  I say we got married again, but in reality we really just got marriage confirmation.  We still have our marriage license from the states, it just now has a local stamp and blue ink signature on it saying we are legitimately married.  Tomorrow morning Andrew will go back to the government office and hopefully this new and improved stamp will do the trick.  If not, the third marriage is the charm!  We have already confirmed that if they do not accept this new stamp, we will go back and get a completely new Arabic marriage certificate.  If that happens, we're definitely going to throw a whole marriage party Arabic style!

The Newlyweds!

(I know I look horrible in this picture.  I don't take good pictures when I'm nervous)

Celebrating our Second Marriage out on the Town

Lately...

I know I haven't posted in a while.  Things have been very busy here lately.  Too much going on to even find words to be able to post.  But here are a few pictures to help out.

Break time during our language class.  I made a chocolate cake as a little pick me up for all of us

Hanging out at Starbucks during our trip to the Capitol

Starbucks was in the Mall.  It was great to go to a mall :)

Andrew with vacuum-sealed fish in the nice grocery store :)

Breakfast at Starbucks complete with made at home gluten free bread