SATURDAY, 8/3/13

We slept very sound last night, and woke up around 6:00 am.  We’re adjusting!  Slowly get ready for the day, eating, lazing around, etc.  We make contact with lots of family today on Facetime.  Saturday morning between 8:00 am and 11:00 am works well for Central Time Friday evening 7 – 10 pm.  Many are home relaxing.  Unbelievable that we can talk around the world with little or no time delay!!!  Occasional moments of signal loss and buffering, but overall good.

We finally get out of the apartment and head to BISS to attack Judy’s classroom.  She’s been so busy in meetings that she’s had no time to get herself settled and the room is pretty jumbled.  We pull everything out of the shelves and start sorting – supplies, instruments, music, CDs/DVDs/Cassettes, etc.  We finish around 8:00 pm and head back, feeling much better about the status of the room.  Dinner at home and off to sleep.

Gate entrance at BISS

SUNDAY 8/4/13

More work for Judy in her classroom at BISS today.  She leaves around 9:00 am.  This is her first “solo” taxi ride.  I’m heading to IKEA.  We badly need a mattress pad, and I found a chair on their website that should work for my back.

Judy had excitement enroute.  The driver dropped her close to the school but on a different side and a few blocks away.  She can tell from Google Maps where she is, and the driver has pointed her in the right direction.  Focusing on the map as she walks, she trips and sprawls everywhere.  Phone and bags hit the ground hard.  She collects it all, nothing is broken, but pride is badly damaged.  She recovers in a Costa Coffee (similar to Starbucks), then finishes the walk to school.

I arrive at IKEA around opening time.  It is already jammed with people.  I have a “hit list” of items and start scurrying.  2 hours later, I’m checking out with a full-length mirror, other assorted mirrors, a chair and footstool, several lamps, and a piece of paper, which I hope is the mattress pad.  It’s a full cart, and I follow signs to the delivery area.  Very smooth operation.  Not much of a line.  I hand them my stuff, and a piece of paper with my address.  I decide to have them assemble the chair.  Delivery (same day), and assembly cost is $30.  Wahoo!  I head out to the taxi area with two very heavy bags, and travel home.

IKEA, Checking out

The IKEA stuff arrives around 3:00 pm.  Chair and footstool assembled and delivery guys gone after 20 minutes.  I start “breaking in” the chair immediately.  After a short nap, I unpack the lamps, mirrors, and mattress pad.  Judy gets home around 5:00 and we spend the rest of the evening experimenting with lamp placement, and installing the mirrors.  We are ready for a new week!