Life in the Desert

When in Rome, do as the Romans do...

How bout, when in the desert, do what there is to do in the desert.  :)

Every weekend is a new adventure for us, as we try to embrace this new place as our home.

The craziest thing we've done so far since moving here might not seem like such a crazy thing at first. We went to the sea, for a beach day.  The crazy thing about going to this part of the sea was the drive, as only half of the hour and a half drive was on roads.

The rest of the drive looked like this:

That my friends is sand.  Lots and lots of sand, and dunes that WE DROVE OVER.  Miles of it. Had I not had such a death grip on the car trying to keep myself steady in my seat, there would be more pictures, especially of the dunes on the way to the sea, but, alas, this was all I could get of the sand and car adventure. It was bumpy, it was sandy, it was slippery, it was scary at times, and it was crazy!

If I had a picture of what we were really doing to help you understand the serious craziness of our adventure, it would have looked like this: Disclaimer, NOT MY PICTURES...

This is a thing here.  This is what you do, when you live in the desert. You drive through sand to get to the sea.  Talk about a wild ride! :)

I have a few pictures of the kids having fun at the sea on our camera since my silly phone won't take a good close up picture anymore.  Gonna have to get that out for a future update full of pictures.

For now though, I will show you how we ended our desert ride of fun.  Well, some of us anyway.

Sleepy Babes

And finally, our fearless driver, who happened to think this was the best thing ever to happen for him, since moving here:

We explored a local park and saw something AMAZING, and yet so simple.

Do you see what I see?  Trees! Green! It's a miracle!  Looking forward to some cool days at the park in our near future.

At the same park, was this glorious view:

Again, dealing with a blurry phone, but, it's lovely anyway.

Finally, I leave you with these cuties:

These two are best buds

Our last two weekends in a nutshell.  This weekend also involved Christmas Decorations.  I needed a little Peace, Joy, Hope and the Love of Christmas to be a part of my home since we are so far away.  This is the earliest I have ever done this, but a tree is up (thankful to a dear friend for giving us a tree) and decorated, and Christmas music has been playing. Remembering the true meaning of this beautiful season as we rest, in the desert.

We celebrate Christ this Christmas season. All Glory to Him.