Day 2...

Today we woke up and had a great complimentary breakfast downstairs. It felt really good to eat some real food again. Then we went up stairs and unpacked out of suitcases and into the closets and dressers. This is going to be our home might as well start off that way besides living out of a suit case sucks. The girls liked picking which drawers and just how they would put their clothes away and creating systems for things together. Where to put dirty laundry and it really helped to have some stucture like at home. Living closer with them will make that easier to maintain and it was fun to do together. It was practically like decorating the insides of their drawers with their familiar clothes. Feels more like home and ours.

Then we had the Enterprise car guy come pick us up and we got our car. They were very helpful and nice. There was a nice lady who was getting a car also and she started talking with the girls and just made everybody feel better. She was holding Alisha's hands and listening to her talk all about some really silly crazy stories that she likes to string together. Then Alisha started looking at her hands in the ladies hands and said your hands are not the same as mine.... your hands are black. The lady said yes, I have black skin. Then she held her hand palm side up under Alisha's hand and Alisha was so surprised that her hands were lighter on the palms. This was really strange to me because Alisha had gone to a very diverse preschool for two years. Alisha held the lady's hand palm up next to her palm down hand and said. "Your hands are not the same either" (Alisha's hands do not have the same number of fingers on them) Then I about hit the floor when Alisha put her fingers up her nose and then spread them apart and said your nose is big. The lady said well, that's my heritage and she said when you get big your nose will get bigger too. Alisha had a pondering look on her face but she didn't say anymore and the lady laughed at the look on Alisha's face. I really enjoyed talking with this lady she was just compeletly peaceful and loving and I'm very sure that she is an awesome grandmother to some very lucky grandchildren.

Then we went shopping.... I'm very grateful to have GPS and I have preprogrammed a few useful New Jersey places into it. The down side is that you still have to know where you are going so that you can choose your locations in the correct or at least a senseable order.. My grocery shopping stops were not really very far apart but I did have a hard time finding them. The biggest problem though is that the GPS was off a little sometimes and so I would turn when it said but it was one parking lot too early but I had a hard time getting to where I was looking for mostly because there was no Target located on the street where the GPS thought there was one. I asked some locals and there has never been one there. That and my GPS says "Make a legal U turn when possible." That is almost laughable, there are just about no protected left turns at least anywhere near this area. There are no "NO U turn" signs anywhere because you simply can't make one. Sometimes it looks really funny I've seen everyone drive out to the middle of an intersection and then everybody sorts themselves and they finish as the lights turn red. Anyway, the around the block method doesn't always work when you don't know the lay out of things.. so 20 miles later on a very local trip and we had some food to eat at least enough to last us through Monday and a little longer.