While Munga and Gramma were here the kids received their belated and early Christmas gifts--BIKES! We had planned to get them as soon as we returned to Italy in January, but soon after we started to contemplate and pray about the possibility of moving. With the uncertainty of whether or not our new location would be accommodating to bike riding we decided to put the gifts on hold. Then we found a house large enough to store bikes and with access to a bike path nearby--praise the Lord! The warmer weather took a while in coming this year and with the gift givers headed our way we thought it would be fun for them to be present when the kids picked out their bikes.
It was a test of patience in getting these bikes. The first shopping trip the kids all found bikes they wanted, but then the salesman told us a storewide sale was starting a few days later. We figured a few days longer would be worth the possibility of saving some money. We returned to the store the morning the sale started only to discover that 1) the bikes were NOT on sale and 2) there were no longer any girl bikes! Double bummer. We should have adhered to our rule of thumb here: if you see something and want it, get it. Don't expect that it will be restocked in a timely fashion or that you will ever see it again. Lesson learned...again. So we had the store put aside the bikes for the boys while we waited another week for the new shipment of girl bikes to arrive. Thankfully our kids have adapted to the unpredictability of life here and did pretty well in the wait.
A HUGE thank you to Munga and Gramma for the new bikes! And thank you too for fixing up my bike so that at least one of us can ride along with the kids for now.
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