Winter is officially here in Kosovo.  As far as we are concerned, the first snowfall (Saturday the 22^nd) and below freezing temps are enough to call it winter here.  We were pretty surprised.  After hearing rainfall during the night (unfortunately Noah wakes us up on a fairly regular basis now), we were very surprised to wake up and see that the rooftops around us were covered with beautiful white snow.  Yikes!  We aren’t ready for this at all!  Only one of us is lucky enough to have a winter coat.  And none of us have winter shoes.  So, as you can imagine, we eventually got ourselves ready and braved the cold outside air.  We were on a search for winter boots.  We went to a place our team members had recommended and we found quite a crowd of people there who had the same idea we had.  It didn’t take us long . . . Genti found a suitable pair of boots for 10 Euro and I found some for 7 Euro!  Wow, you can call that a deal.

Now we are really wondering when our precious boxes are going to get through the customs check points in Greece and make their way to our home.  We have a “shipping broker” who is prepared to bring them here.  However, we still have not been notified that they are ready for the shipping broker to pick up.  It will be an early Christmas for us.  Even better, a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving. (I don’t foresee our Thanksgiving to involve a turkey, pumpkin pie, or stuffing for that matter!)  What we could really use though is Noah’s winter coat, Genti’s coat, and a whole slew of sweaters and other warm clothing.  Bend was so warm at the end of September it was just hard to believe that we would be caught in cold winter weather so fast!!  My how time flies.