Star Wars: A New Home

Mike's Iqama has come through!  Hooray!  This is our ticket to normalcy.  Now he can get a Saudi driver's license, and that means we can buy a car.  Now we can get cell phones.  Now we can get a bank account.  Now we can get exit-reentry visas, and now we can get visas set up for our parents to come visit.   Things are almost getting a lot better....almost there...stay on target...almost there..... (for those of you who don't know - yes, I do have several friends (two I think) who have never seen Star Wars, believe it or not  - this is a Star Wars reference.  Unfortunately, the guy who 'stayed on target' in his X-wing got shot down by a tie fighter in a big, puffy explosion right after this.) (Hmmm, maybe this is not a good reference to our situation after all!  Ha!)  (P.S. For you same people, the title of this post is also a Star Wars pun.)  In any case, we are maybe just a few days away from the driver's license and cell phones, and a week away from our own car.  Not much longer now. 

Almost there!

In other news, we were chatting with Everett over lunch about his new preschool, and we made an interesting discovery.  Apparently, there is a Luke in his class.  And a Leia.  Luke and Leia.  Not kidding!  Everett actually calls this Luke "new Luke" because there was a Luke in his old preschool class, too.  So it's Everett, Oliver, Sean, Achmed, new Luke, and Leia.  This can only mean one thing...we have inadvertently moved to Tatooine.  And Mike is not really a water engineer, he is a moisture farmer.  Check out the pictures of our environs.  See the resemblance?

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