Sunday, March 15

Nothing all day, but then a burst of "have to do something today" and a solo trip to Cepa to buy some green hair things for St. Patrick's Day for the girls, to browse the English language books at that D&R Books, to complete the surveillance of Cepa's store offerings (no, nothing more to check out here really), and to do some grocery shopping at the "big Carrefour". I came out to big snowflakes falling again and was cut off from the taxi I was going to climb into by a man with a wife and kid in a stroller following behind him. While I was complaining in my head about standing out in the snow longer with my too heavy grocery bags cutting off the circulation of my fingers, I realized that I really have gotten used to having Aeden with me and assuming I always get the first cab, or the seat on the bus, or whatever. I think my experience here is very much "Turkey with a baby boy" and not so much "Turkey as a solo woman". No complaints, though I do wonder how much "Turkey with a baby girl" is different from my experience.