First Few Days

Cody's parents left two days ago and we had a great two weeks with them. We traveled around the country for one week and were in our city the rest of the time. Well, Jan took two thousand or so pictures and we currently in the process of sorting through them. Here are few happenings from their first few days in our city. We will have much more to come including our travels to my friend's village way down south and visit from some ol' New Mexican friends.


First day, we wake up and leave the house on our way to a favorite coffee shop for breakfast and we get into a wreck. Totally the other girls fault but of course she doesn't admit it. We were going straight and she swirved into us. A little traumatizing for the rest of the driving but we get through it.

Here's the damage to the car we are using.

We went to the Kasbah and this is a cute old man in his shoe shop.

Some friends enjoying the view together.

This is leather shop in the market. I love all the bright colors and these are called poof's and are stuffed and used as ottoman's or chairs.

We took them to some Roman Ruins (later built on top of when Islam came here). WooHoo that is one good lookin man!

Cody's parents. Cute!

Good thing I like to have my picture taken! :)

Eating at a nice dinner at the Mega Mall for a friend's birthday.

Where does the time go?

This month we are celebrating two years in North Africa. (October 24th to be exact). I decided to go ahead and post today because Cody's parents will be coming in tomorrow and I may not get a chance to post again for a couple of weeks. We will be traveling all over the country and Cody's Mom has an incredibly nice camera she just bought so be prepared for some amazing pictures! Also, for those who are counting, this is our 99th post!!! WooHoo!

A brief look back to 2005, still exploring our new city.



October 2006, one year under our belts and feeling like experts ;)

















And here we are yesterday, my how we have grown...well at least matured...maybe? An interesting tidbit is Cody and I have spent more of our married life in North Africa than America! (4 years this December)

Ramadan Continues...

I know, I know, I am late posting our blog this week but it's been a bit slow as far as picture taking. I promise next post will have photos of us, in case you missed our faces this week :) This week it rained for the first time in a long time and it really cooled off the weather so that has been nice. It also made for some lovely clouds. Here is our neighborhood mosque on one of those days. Also, Leo DiCaprio is in town shooting a movie. Cody thought he saw them shooting down the street where a street was blocked off. By the time I made it down there, everyone was packing up :( The hunt continues...


In other news we have more fast breaking pictures. Here is a lovely spread at a friend's house this week. This fitor was special because it was immediately followed up by a nice trip to the local hammum (public bathhouse). Nothing like steaming and scrubbing up for a couple hours after a big meal.(We had to hurry immediately after breaking the fast to get a good spot, it fill up quick!) By the time we left at 10:00 p.m. the party was just getting started because then we headed to the coiffure (salon) so my friend could get a manicure, pedicure, and hair brushing. I got my hands and feet massaged for about $2.50! She was traveling the next day and needed to look superb.


Here is her living room, just thought you might like to see it.


And last, but certainly not least, who doesn't love a cute picture of a baby?! We had fitor had a friend's house last night and this is their adorable son. Look how big is eyes are! Cody looked SO cute (albeit slightly awkward) holding him, I wish I had gotten a photo. (I'll work on that).

Tune in next week, Cody's parents are visiting and we will be traveling for a week so we'll have TONS (please read TONS) of photos from that!