Over the past two weeks, we've been learning about our new hometown. Of course, having worked and lived in Latin America for so long, that's my frame of reference. At this point, I've decided that Beirut is like a smaller, cleaner version of Buenos Aires albeit with more bullet holes, tanks, and fancy cars. The restaurants are phenomenal, the nightlife is supposed to be amazingly fun (we don't get out much since Joe's bedtime is 7p), and shopping/grooming might be considered a national pastime. And nearly everyone here speaks English - all the waiters, most shop workers, even some taxi drivers. One of the best qualities however -- especially with a 4 month old who requires you to be at home from 6:30pm onward -- is that EVERYBODY delivers, from fast food to the best Lebanese restaurant in town. Having fresh and delicious hummus and kibbeh at your front door within 20 minutes is quite a thing.
While Ben is hard at work during the day, Joe and I explore the city. (We'll post more on our adventures later.) Joe's also mastered skills such as rolling over (back to front, and front to back if he keeps one arm tucked under), a baby version of army crawling, drooling copious amounts, making ugly crying faces, laughing, and making his parents dance around to Lady Gaga to entice him to laugh more. Check out the photos and videos...
This one is from when we learned that Joe (finally!) responds to qzerberts with laughter:
This is one of Joe's very impressive back to front roll overs that we've been able to catch on film. Getting this on video is a little like catching the bird of paradise mating dance on film (for all you planet earth fans); we know it happens all the time, it's just so rare to catch it on film...
And here are a bunch of pictures from our first two weeks. Enjoy!
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It's really great to see how happy you all are, but what I want to know is HOW IS BROBIE?!?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteAnd what I want to know is, WHO IS BROBIE?!?!?!? I also want to know why you insist on having your status constantly say "new blogpost" when it's almost never a new blog post. Not that I compulsively check every time I see that one of you is on g-chat. That's a bratty way of saying that I really like reading about what you guys are doing and looking at your pictures.
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