On the 3rd of February we left our house in the tribe for the first time! The past three and a half months have been a very good time of settling in, but it was nice to look forward to a 'break.' The plan was to spend 1 week in our supply town, buying supplies to take in for the next 3 months, then fly to the capital city for one week for Roman to have a hernia surgery, and then back to supply city to spend two nights before going home on the 17th. Weeeellll... things haven't exactly gone as planned and we are still in the capital city until Wednesday of next week.
Here the kids are ready to go on our two flights (3 hours and 2 hours) to the capital.
Roman was looking pretty cool
I found $2 backpacks to fill with their water bottles and snacks since the airline we fly (cheap:) doesn't provide anything, even water.
Gideon was excited!
And so was Raquel!
Well, Roman had an appointment to see the Dr. at 5pm on Tues., but when he woke up we realized his cold had turned into an ear infection. He was crying all morning holding his ear, so we had another appt. for him at an SOS clinic in town. So nice to have medical care available whenever you might need it. We called them and he was seen an hour later.
Here he is in a taxi on the way there.
He was super grumpy when we got there, but cheered up when he saw our view. Across the street was a huge construction site and he was content to watch all that was going on the whole time we were there.
He started antibiotics for the ear infection and later that night I took him to the pediatric surgeon who said he wanted Roman to be fully recovered before he would do surgery. That changed our plans a bit! Now we are waiting until Monday or Tuesday. The surgeon gave me his cell phone number and told me just to call him the day before I wanted to have the surgery done:)
