Chocolat Pain Makes It All Better

The good news is we got our air freight today. It was like Christmas for me: boxes and boxes to be unwrapped and enjoyed. We managed to get almost everything sorted and put away and somehow I felt disappointed that it was all over. I mean, most of our things are on a boat somewhere, so it was quite a tease to get this first (mini) shipment. Compare 450lbs of household goods that we got today with 7,000lbs+ that we'll be getting in a couple of months and you'll see why I feel teased. Still, it's better than nothing and I'm happy that Gusi now has most of his toys.

The bad news is that we will have the generator running non-stop for a second night in a row. Last night there was a black-out in our neighborhood and when the fuel guy came buy to refill our generator, we had consumed 41 liters of fuel overnight. And tonight, just as I was preparing to give Gusi something for dinner, the lights went out in part of the house. Only one part. Apparently in many (developing) countries the power is divided into three parts as it comes into the house. Thus, if there is an outage in only one part of the city power, you will still have power in two other parts of your house. So this is what happened. Unfortunately, the part that went out was also the part that powers our water pump so we had no running water in the house for a while. We called the maintenance number and a guy was out here in no time. He's hooked up the generator manually to power the house so we can have running water (and air conditioning in our bedroom, overhead lights in the kitchen, ceiling fans in three rooms, etc). And so we will hear the all too familiar humming of the generator going tonight as well.

Finally, more good news is that when PapaGus got home from work this evening he had stopped by a bakery and had two baguettes and a bag full of pain au chocolat and croissants with him. Yumm. I don't know who invented the croissant or who was the genius that decided to put some chocolate pieces in it, but today I thank them as this is the best pain I could be in.