First month here...

Hello all, we have arrived and are slowly getting settled. We finally got out of Atlanta, and the plane ride was surprisingly painless. The worst part was touching down in Senegal 2 am, having them come onto the plane while all the kids were sleeping, wake them up and then spray the plane with bug spray?

We arrived in Johannesburg the next day (flight was about 19 hours) stayed the night in some crazy hotel and flew to Gaborone the next morning..

Michelle's cousin Kristen came over with us and was wonderful to have here while we situated ourselves. The first week was awful.. No one slept at night, Kate rode her scooter through our empty house at 5 am. Jude and Frances were up all night, but they eventually got with the program.

The home is very nice and the neighborhood is great as well. People have been very kind and without a car, we have relied mostly on a cab driver named Tim, who helped with grocery shopping, buying a mattress and picking us up whenever we needed a ride somewhere.

We celebrated Kate's b-day, have taken several game drives at the local game reserves and made new friends with the other PAC doctors. We have been introduced to Wimpy's (awful fast food burgers), monkey gland sauce and some phrases of the local language (Setswana). Jacob has played golf with warthogs in the fairways, kicked soccer with our security guard Eric, and watched "Spaceballs 600 times. Maura started pre-school at "Tiny Bubbles" and the kids start school at Northside School next Wednesday..... I CAN'T WAIT.

More to come, it is getting late... Much to go over from the last month and some things to write about the culture, people, etc.