{"id":3189,"date":"2014-07-26T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:35:51","slug":"echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Moving<\/a>

Moving Day<\/p><\/div>\n

Our packout was on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, so the house is now empty – and leaving is becoming more real to us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The days leading up to packout were hectic, to say the least! Spare time was spent organizing the house for the movers. The first day of packout went fine; the company brought eight men to pack, plus two supervisors. It was like an army of ants devouring our things and putting it all in boxes. The noise was deafening as they made boxes with packing tape. Day Two was not fun. They didn’t bring the same crew of men and we often had to stop them from cramming fragile items into boxes – very stressful. A Bloody Mary stashed in the kitchen helped!<\/span><\/p>\n

At any rate, it’s all done. We’ll see how well they did once we unpack on the other end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flavie was not happy about the commotion and her suspicions that something is up are now confirmed. <\/span><\/p>\n

Work was also crazy busy this week. I worked all day Saturday just trying to get through emails on active visa cases and find the bottom of my desk. I still have a long way to go. Luckily we are moving into Eid week, so we’ll have no visa applicants. I plan to work every day even though four days are holidays; it will be wonderful to have the office to myself and hopefully start chipping away on my to-do list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Sunday, we hosted one last big brunch at our house with our good friends. It was a really nice day; Saleem made breakfast burritos and we had a chance to visit with everyone. Cesar and Lydia stayed afterward for a good visit before they departed Pakistan. Lots of fun!<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night, we picked up our old friend from A-100, Eric and his wife Diana and went to the Thai restaurant for dinner – so nice to catch up with them!<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been very rainy this week; I guess monsoon season is here. The cloud cover has kept the temperatures out of the 100s, at least, but the humidity is stifling! I’ve about given up on my hair at this point!<\/span><\/p>\n

I finally got around to uploading our Cambodia photos – click here to see them<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll finish with some photos around our yard. The zinnias are gorgeous! Also, this year it looks like we have poinsettias, or something in that family. The leaves turn green, then yellow-pink – very pretty! And we also have several different colors of celosia (brain flower) – I love the gold ones. I’ll miss this beautiful home and yard!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Country<\/a>

Country Cousin, one of the cats across the street<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Poinsettias<\/a>

Poinsettias (?)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Celosia\"<\/a>

Celosia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Celosia\"<\/a>

Celosia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Baby<\/a>

Baby Celosia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Yellow<\/a>

Yellow Celosia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Orange<\/a>

Orange Celosia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our wonderful home<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Zinnias\"<\/a>

Zinnias<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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