Fun Day!

I had such a great day today! After walking my four miles with two friends, I jumped in the car and drove the 45 minutes to Cincinnati to do some serious shopping. This house is so much bigger than our French house and quite a bit bigger than our last US house that we have space to fill. So, I headed to the furniture outlet stores that I used to know and love. Well, I still love them! I bought a fantastic large dining room table with a matching buffet.

I got a ridiculous low price and now just need some chairs to go with it. I am ready for some grand dinner parties! After my thrilling purchase, I spent the remainder of the day browsing for and buying a few little house things and even checking out some new cars for Josh at his request. I then headed over to Jungle Jims. Jungle Jims is a huge supermarket filled with all sorts of wines, produce and foods from all over the world. You can find a multitude of things there that you can't easily find anywhere else. Our French friends, who also just moved here, told us that they have found many of their favorite French wines and other French foods there which helps them to miss France a little bit less. I needed to see this for myself, so I wandered the massive aisles for a long time just seeing what I could see. I was a little disappointed in the French section in that it was much smaller than I had expected but still contained some pretty great things.

I hurried home in time for the kids to get home from school and then ran Max to soccer, myself to a lector training meeting at church, and Tabitha to another babysitting job before dinner. Tonight, I am baking pain au chocolat for the 51 kids that are signed up for my French club at the elementary school tomorrow.