Freedom! Brought to us by Hyundai

Today I went down to the Driver's License Department and went through a variety of lines and paperwork and picked up my driver's license. That's right. Today I joined the class of the frazzled-nerved, white-knuckled, half-craved, horn-happy, cussing, screaming, and the all around impatient drivers of the Middle East.

*I had to take the eye exam in Arabic. A bit nerve-racking. I have a hard time telling which way the little "E" is pointing in English, much less saying it in Arabic.*

But because we aren't sure what we are doing after language school we are in no position to get a car, BUT we have several friends who are traveling back and forth from the States and they agreed to let us borrow their car these next couple weeks. So we are in a little Hyundai Accent today.

We were cruising down the road on a way to a picnic and I flipped the "squirt water on the windshield" lever and the back windshield wiper went crazy and wouldn't shut off! So we drove around for an hour with the back windshield wiper smearing the dirt on the back windshield and nothing happening on the front windshield. "oh, great. We've had the car for 10 minutes and I've already jacked it up!"

Fortunately we get home and I pull the fuse out and replace it and everything goes back to normal. I guess when a fuss blows, the front stops working and the back stops stopping.

Oh well. Who cares? For now, we are free......

Driver's License Update

We three went to the random office that we went to last week to apply for an exception to forgo all the tests to get a license and picked up my copy of approval to take to the Dept. of License across town and we dropped off B's papers to be processed....(whew...that was a long sentence).

The Dept. of Licenses closes at 3:30pm. We pull up to the gate at 2:15pm. The gate is closed and everything is locked up. Oh well. We'll try again on Saturday.

Its the Middle East. What can you do?

Public Service Announcement

I realize that very few of you will care...

but I've finally updated all of the labels for our posts on the blog. You can browse by topic now on your right under "A Topical Guide."

Something also went goofy with all the old videos on the blog. I fixed those and you can see all the old videos that we've made over the past two years. They all should be up and running. I doubt any of you care, but I feel better. Being over organized kindof stinks.

Noah's Bath Time Video

Don't worry. We added an extra helping of bubbles, so this is a G video and suitable for all audiences. I apologize for the lighting. Our bathroom is just dark. There is no way to light it up.

To see Noah's Bath Time Video Click Here.