Boxes are on the way!

Our first big step to getting to Senegal.  The boxes are packed and Amadou has driven off with them.  27 boxes and bikes with over 1000 different little items we think will be good for our new life!  thanks Amadou.

Packing with children

The kids are enjoying the packing.  We're sending a number of things by boat and need to leave 2 months for the items to both get to Senegal as well as get thought customs.  So, only another few weeks before the shipping service comes to get them.  During that time, the kids are having much fun.  They call this their "coziness."

When it was time to bring the boxes downstairs, the kids were pretty helpful!  Together, Skyalr and Sylvia pushed all 23 boxes to the stairs and across the downstairs.  I (Marc) slide them down the stairs.

Passports Applied for

Today we went to the post office to apply for passports for the children.  Skylar spent the time fishing paper out of the garbage can and making his own passport on the back of the scrap he found.  "How did you learn to spell our last name?" Julienne asked.  "I listened to Dad say it on the phone," was his nonchalant answer.

The post officer noticed that both of our drivers licenses expire at the end of the year - add another thing to the list!

In our long preparation for Dakar, Senegal, I searched Netflix movies for Senegal and Dakar and came up with a documentary about a team taking part in the Paris to Dakar motor-bike race.  6000 miles on a motor cycle on mostly unpaved roads and unpaved sand dunes - no fun!  Anyhow, they showed shots of villages in the eastern part of Senegal and I couldn't believe it.  They look just like the National Geographic photos!


Marc