Shipment from Home

As of yesterday we've been here for one month. We just got a notification today that our shipment from home is ready to leave the US. Yes, you read that right. It's a good thing I spent months planning what to carry over here with us, and wrote a detailed list of things to buy when we got here to fill in the gaps so we'd be comfortable until our shipment arrived. We really didn't carry THAT much with us, and didn't buy that many things after we got here, yet we're amazingly comfortable. Short of some additional clothes, towels, games, books, etc., that are in our shipment, we really have everything we need here to be happy already. And from the looks of Rob's office shipment (see "Office Shipment" blog entry), it's a good thing we didn't ship more! Who knows if it would have arrived in one piece! What's going to be interesting is how our breakable things we've purchased here are going to arrive when it comes time to head back home and ship them from here to home. Since we're picking up things in the local market here it's not like we can just run to the store in the US with shipping insurance money and replace it if it gets broken in the shipment home. But we'll cross that bridge another day - if necessary.......