What a fun day!!

This morning we decided to venture out and went for a walk down to the cafe. Each of the girls picked out their own special treat (gotta love having grandma here:), we got a bottle of water to share for the girls and my mom and I each got a macchiato:) Our total bill was 65 birr, which is about $3.50. If we only we could go to Starbucks for as cheap back home!!

The girls have gotten super creative and fun in their play today. After lunch London went upstairs and started "washing clothes". She pulled out our buckets we had bought awhile back, and a bunch of clothes from their closet. She found a few different small containers (like bubble containers, small cups, etc) and was filling those with water in the bathroom, and bringing them over to the big buckets her clothes were in. When Geneva went upstairs and wanted to help, they decided to have a wash bucket and a rinse bucket. Then they would "ring"out their clothes and hang them, (still dripping:) on our balcony. SO cute to watch them:)

After they tired of this they decided to put their swimming suits on and brought the buckets and a bunch of empty water bottles downstairs for water play. They have been wanting to go swimming SO BADLY! I think this satisfied that desire, at least for the time being.

While the girls were playing outside, I made some oatmeal cookies, and they all REALLY enjoyed fresh baked cookies.

Now it is just after 4:00pm, they have started a video, and are watching that as we begin dinner preparations.

Best day we have had in a LONG time!! So much giggling and laughter; hopefully the beginnings of friendships being built in our house today!