Jana is HERE!

The long awaited day of Jana's arrival has finally taken place. She arrived last Thursday evening despite delays caused by bad weather. Of course, true to form, I was late to pick her up. But, it was not for a lack of trying. Chris, believe it or not, was actually on time, so at least someone was there to meet her when she got off of the plane. I guess she would have learned that about us--it was just sooner rather than later.

We have had a busy weekend trying to show her around Daniel Island and Charleston. The boys all like her a lot. Tonight she went out with some other AuPairs and as she got home Tater Tot was just getting ready for bed, and almost jumped from my arms to her. I think that's a good sign.

Bobby and Katy, Chris' brother and sister, left this morning to head to Maryland. They spent the weekend showing Jana around and just hanging out. They took her on a golf cart tour of the island, went with us downtown to the old slave's market, and played the Wii until the middle of the night. 

For me, however, the most memorable experience of the weekend was when Jana, Chris, Cookie and I went shark tooth hunting. At least that's what we planned to do. However, as is often the case with this family, our plans changed. All of the paths, if you can

call them that, were completely overgrown and impassable. Nobody could ever say we didn't try, though. Jana was a great sport. She had to wonder what she had gotten herself into as we went 20mph across the old dike system on the south tip of DI. Or when a couple of wild turkeys came out of the woods in front of us and ran from the golf cart. Or when the swarms of mosquitoes covered her whole body. Or when we repeatedly had to lift limbs so that we could continue down the path that we were on. Cookie called it a Safari. It was hot enough to be one, that's for sure. It was good for some laughs, but we never were able to make it to our "secret" shark's tooth hunting ground. Instead, we chased swarms of crabs as they ran from us on the beach in front of our dock. Not nearly as fun, especially if you were the crabs.

We are off to a great start. I hope Jana likes us half as much as we like her. If so, we are doing just fine!