A Weekend of Fun!

Well, this weekend was one many of us Western teaching staff look forward to from the beginning of the year... The Annual Rugby Ball at the Hilton Resort. Everybody gets dressed up to the nines and heads out to party like it's going out of style. What a riot we had! Unintentionally, Ryan and I matched in our black and white ensembles and we danced the whole night away.

We are really thinking about next fall and how excited and jealous we are that you guys have snow right now. We both are really missing the chilly weather of fall. It's still 38 everyday here but we are used to it and it just feels like a hot summer day at the lake everyday... minus the lake and add a REALLY big sandbox.

We had a great Thanksgiving meal for the Canadians on our floor last Monday. It was wonderful and we managed to gorge ourselves with enough turkey to feed an army. Being the little suzy homemaker that I am, I decided to try my hand at making turkey soup. It took forever to boil the bones (who knew real soup took so long??) and it turns out it came at the right time! Everyone, save Ryan and I thus far, is getting very ill even within our teacher building. Ryan's class had only 4 students on Thursday! All of Kuwait is extremely paranoid of H1N1 right now so when their children get even a sniffle they yank them out of school. It's quite ridiculous. So far my classroom on the girls campus hasn't been too badly effected as I still have a full room every morning.

We decided that we needed to book another trip to go somewhere for New Years so we booked tickets to Beirut to go snowboarding for New Years. Some friends of ours have a little chalet out in the mountains and they are going to lend it to our group of people to enjoy for 2 days... how nice!!! We just couldn't give up the opportunity so we booked tickets early.

We also got excellent news yesterday from our friends, Daena and Gabe who work with us and live on our floor of the apartment building. They are 4 months pregnant! They have been married for 5 years and will have the baby here in Kuwait.

Other news... Ryan got the Porsche back to do a bit of engine repair. So he will be car-sitting again for the next few months. Having two cars is Awesome!