I'm feeling a little lazy, so I'm not getting you a picture for this one, but I thought I'd give an update on our life in Crescent City so far. This is our fourth night in the house and it's getting pretty close to being unpacked and semi-organized. Mostly, we're as far as we are in that process because we appear to be missing the shelves for one piece of furniture and we're trying to get through every box to find them. I actually cooked in the kitchen today and hope to have an actual MEAL produced in it tomorrow!
But here's the real news:
On Friday, one of Michael's coworkers invited us over for dinner to give us a break from unpacking. We walked over to their house around six. You read that right. We walked to a neighbor's house. We have neighbors. Who live close enough to our house that we can walk to their house. It's revolutionary. Not only that, but they also invited another coworker as well and she walked, too, and we walked home TOGETHER after dinner because also she lives so close.
Now, you might think that story is over, but no. There's more. On Saturday, we went to the second-to-last farmers' market of the year. We bumped into our neighbors. At the farmers' market that's a five minute drive from our house.
And as if that's not enough? Our house is about 150 feet from the complex's play area. Darcy played with random kids over there this afternoon. After that, we were all back in the garage trying to find those dang shelves and Darcy spied a little girl riding in a little car toy across the street and asked to go meet her. So we did, and ended up visiting with Safira and her mother, Mary, for fifteen or twenty minutes. Darcy let Safira play with the octopus she had been playing with and Safira let Darcy take a few turns in her little car.
We live in an actual town. It's amazing.
And on the natural side of life, today was a gorgeous sunny day and we hiked down a bluff to get our first glimpse of the tide pools. Unfortunately, we tried to squeeze too much into our morning and got there a little after low tide, so the pools were getting covered back up when we reached them. But we did get to see a lot of itty bitty mussels, lots of barnacles, and star fish and anemones from a distance. We'll go back soon. This time, we'll get there well before low tide.
Tomorrow, Michael has his first full day at work and the forecast says there's a 100% chance of rain. So we won't be going to the tide pools tomorrow. But we might be going to a group toddler activity at the Family Resource Center (or something like that). They have activities with music, reading, and dance pretty much every day. I can't remember which activity happens tomorrow, but something does.
They also help fund the WonderBus which is part bookmobile and part something else with toys. What I hope Darcy will end up loving is that they have kids keep reading logs: In order to add a book to their list, the kids have to "read" the books to the rabbit who lives on the WonderBus. We visited it at the farmers' market and the woman who runs the bus spied the chard in our bag. She asked if Darcy wanted to feed some to the rabbit because it's Tiger Lily's favorite food. She seemed to think we were doing her a favor by giving up some of our chard to her rabbit, but Darcy was so thrilled by being allowed to feed the rabbit that I thought we were the recipients of the favor.
To sum up: Life is good in Crescent City so far.
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