Our house is almost ready!

Yippee! We had a walk through of our house today and it is almost done. =-) If you don't look very closely at it everything looks perfect. Unfortunately once you look a little closer there is a lot of little things that need to be fixed. Loose doors and windows, hot water isn't set up yet, wires hanging from the ceiling where lights will be etc. We had a little bit of a disappointment at the location of the house as well. When we were showed the housing community plan it showed trees behind our house and we were told that it was very quiet and they would be putting in a playground for the kids. We had narrowed our choices down to one with a sea view and this one and picked this one because it was so close to the playground and I knew in spring and summer we would want to go there often. Today when we got to the house there was a shopping center where the playground was supposed to be. It had a small store, a beauty shop, and a laundry center as well as a few other stores to be filled. There was also a big apartment building being built next to it. So not trees and a playground!! When we complained we were told that they changed the plan and that the playground would still be going in just not until spring. They also did not have any other homes we could move into instead so now the back of our house looks out into the shopping center. =P Our yard which was already going to be pretty small also got chopped in about half as well so that was a bit of a bummer too. I am not really upset about it because it is still a free home for two years and it is still really pretty and large but it would have been nice to have what we were promised when we accepted the house. They are running an air test on the house on Monday and will get the results on Wednesday. If the house passes then we may move in on Thursday.

I managed to order two cakes for Mikayla's little party tomorrow! I had been told of a chain of bakeries here called Holliland (it has been pronounced Holly Lay when spoken to me). I went in today with the hope that someone in the store would speak English but NOPE not a single word! I found two cakes that were cute and would feed everyone and tried and tried to ask what kind of cake they were. I used pantomime, i pointed at different cakes, I spoke slowly, and finally I just gave up. I also wrote down what the cake should say and tried to point out what colors I would like. We shall see tomorrow if I accomplished my goal. I think I ordered one larger cake in white and purple that will say "Happy 3rd Birthday Mikayla" with white and purple flowers on it. The other cake hopefully will be white with really pretty pink icing flowers on it and be a little smaller then the first. I will have to take pictures tomorrow and let you judge if I got my point across well. I am also very curious to find out what flavor the cakes are since I was never able to find out while in the store.

While in the DDA checking out our house we also stopped for a late lunch. We told our driver (who speaks very little English) that we were hungry and didn't want to spend too much so he picked out a place for us. I was thinking we would end up having Chinese food but we ended up at a KFC. They are everywhere here and taste exactly the same as back home. The menu is a bit different but so far I have just ordered chicken and mashed potatoes. The KFC was attached to a mall that I can't wait to check out but since I was in a hurry I just ran in to get some wrapping paper. While looking for wrapping paper I found a DVD store and totally scored by finding The Princess and The Frog. I am wrapping it up and giving it to Mikayla tomorrow. She is going to be so excited! I am also looking forward to seeing what the quality of the movie is.

It is 9 pm here right now and Mikayla has been in bed for almost an hour. She is standing on her bed talking to herself so I better go lay with her so she will fall asleep. I can't believe she is turning 3 tomorrow! Where did my baby go??