Almost a year

In the last year (when this poor blog was on the back burner) SOOOOOO much happened - tha'll be my excuse for neglecting the poor blog :)
Andre moved jobs/companies and so we moved house. When we arrived in kingdom 8 years ago, Andre was contracted to Aramco. Aramco is the largest oil company in the world and basically the kings bank account :) Well July 2009 Andre was employed directly by the company and returned to work at the refinery he started at in 2001. Rastanura is a coastal town - now its confusing when people say I live in Rastanura because .... the town is Rahima, the housing complex is also known as Najmah and its actually the refinery itself that is Rastanura. We do not live IN the refinery.
Life is good here, Andre starts work at 7am, and is done by 3:30pm. He has time and space to cycle more and run along the beach if he so desires. The ones really hard done by is the girls and I. We have stayed 'working' in the same location and so must catch a bus everyday. The bus leaves the compound at 6:30 (which means we leave the house a little after 6am) - we get to school approximately 7:40 (with traffic) and we get home a little before 5pm ------ loooooong days.

BUT a year down the line, we are still happy and settling in slowly. Here follows some photos, from the last year, of our new home :