Starting to settle in

Apart from picking through used furniture here and there, we also found lots of amazing groceries at the farmers markets around town (more on this in a separate post). We met our landlord, ran into problems with our Geico insurance (turns out, they don’t like foreigners – more on this later), hit the bottom of our wallets, got bit by mosquitoes A LOT, treated staph infections that the boys somehow got in bites on their legs, and went through a lot of head lice treatments (more on this later too). That first entire week and a half is a bit of a blur in fact, kind of like that first week or two weeks after you’ve given birth to a baby. You’re really just doing one thing – in our case, settling in – but it takes up all your energy, thought process and time.