Not much happening

Well, I hate to say it but, there isn't much happening here. We've moved into our house but are still waiting for our belongings to arrive from Sweden. The weather keeps us from going out during the day for too long so unfortunately we are filling our time with the Disney Channel and a few toys that we have bought since our arrival. Apparently our belongings have been sitting at the airport since July 2 waiting for us to come and ask customs to let the shipment through to us....too bad nobody called us to tell us it was here. It took a phone call to Sweden to find out that our stuff had arrived...days ago.

Lucky for us, there are a lot of activities for children here. Our 5 year old has been bowling, played tennis, been to arts and crafts, played basketball, played tennis, and has passed on soccer...and of course swimming and a play room. All of these activities have been planned activities (except the swimming and play room) and take place at the Recreation Center about 4 blocks from us. There have been other children there but...where are the parents???

Our first compound activity for children was bowling. 12 kids all around 5, 6, 7 ish, no parents. Except me. I was a little surprised by this, but hey we're new so what do we know? The next activity, was tennis. There I saw two other moms. At arts and crafts I spoke with the other mom present "Where are all the parents" (I know I'm a little over protective, but am I really that over protective?)? Her two years of experience at this compound had led her to the following reply:

"You'll see that. The Americans don't hang out with their children, you'll see only maids/nannys; The european's are almost always with their children even if they have a maid/nanny; the middle easterners are never with their children, the maids/nannys do everything, even if the whole family is going out together the maid/nanny will go along to take care of the children"

After seeing the move to KSA as a real opportunity to spend more not less time with the kids I was surprised that more weren't taking advantage of the opportunity...

But, hey, at the end of the day, we're all different! ;-)