Some of these I´m sure I´ve mentioned before... but they never fail to cease to amaze me.
1. The sugar! The white is so fine and the brown is so moist.
2. The things people throw away. Josh picked up a Fisher Price play kitchen for my parent´s house that someone had put out on the road for the dumpster.
3. The endless choices in shopping. I´ve left 3 stores without buying anything I need because it´s so overwhelming.
4. Water fountains (Michaela calls them waterfalls) and clean drinking water out of the tap.
5. Orderly driving, street signs, well designed and maintained sidewalks, and houses that are numbered according to a pattern.
6. The fact you can find any address and directions on Google maps.
7. Mail to your front door.
8. You can renew your driver´s license online!!!! It took me all of 10 minutes.
9. The many family oriented, child oriented activities available... In the last week, we´ve eaten several times at restaurants with playgrounds and coloring sheets, gone to the zoo (which had an amazing playground, with hand sanitizer dispensers as you enter and exit!), the park 3 times,
Greenfield village, and the kids have played at the playground at church. We´re planning on taking advantage of the free programs at the library while we´re here at my parents. However, I have to say I think the
attitudes of Bolivian people are generally more child friendly (this is especially noticiable when traveling with 3 small children).
10. Nobody walks! When we were at the hotel in Dallas and walking to the surrounding restaurants, you felt like a fish out of water because nobody else was on the streets.
11. How light it stays for so long in the summer. Does anyone else have trouble putting their kids to bed in the summer?
12. The ease of automatic locks and doors on the cars and garage door openers.
13. Garage sales!
14. Radio stations! Especially NPR.
15. Recycling, garbage collection from your house, and natural gas lines.
That´s all I can think of right now... more to come I´m sure.
