Antigua, Day 1

 Our first full day in Antigua was spent just trying to figure things out.  We started out by going to breakfast, since we had no food whatsoever.  We ended up seeing a Dunkin Donuts first, and we were hungry enough that it sounded perfect.  My kids weren't quite ready for a breakfast of frijoles and tortillas.

The city is filled with beautiful churches.  This is one we passed along the way.

Grocery shopping was kind of a fiasco as went around trying to find things that looked familiar.  I don't even like to grocery shop with my kids at home, so when you're crammed into a little grocery store with tight aisles and a lot of things you can't exactly identify, it makes it even more crazy. We found the kind of bread that they love as well as some cereal and other staples, and put it into the plastic bags we had to buy and headed back to the house.  Along the way we passed by the Santa Catalina arch, with is the pretty yellow arch seen in almost every picture of Antigua.

The view from out our front door:

Our front door.

Chloe's friend, Ignacio, who lives at the house with us.  He loves Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies.  He's hysterical.

Katie and Mason went with me to check out Spanish schools, and we found one we really liked that they will start tomorrow.

We are still trying to get our bearings and all of the kids are adjusting in their own (sometimes emotional) way.  It will be better to have more to do, so hopefully Spanish school goes well tomorrow.