Sat. Aug. 13th

Today we drove out to Jason's work to pick up another car.  The company lends me a car for 30 days.  So I took the car Jason was driving and he picked up a bigger car with 7 seats, but it is stick shift.  His drive to work is pretty easy.  He makes 3 turns and then is on the main road close to our house and stays on that for about 15 min. and then he is there.  Once he drives past the mall there is not much else out there but fields, more pastures and more cows, mostly white.  Jason is enjoying his job and is busy as usual.
So now that he had the bigger car he went back to Cactus and picked up the trampoline and bought a grill while he was there too.  No one undestands the word grill here, you have to say BBQ.  So of course this store does not sell the gas tanks to go with the grill.  The guy at the store gave Jason a list of other stores that sell tanks.  And I believe that at the other stores you can buy the tanks but they don't have the gas in them.  You actually have to go to another place with some special paperwork to get your tank fillled.  So we have a grill, but it may be awhile before we actually are able to use it!
So since I only can use the company car for awhile we need to buy me a car.  So we went and test drove a friend of a friend's car that is selling it.  It was nice and we will probably end up buying it.  Since we are only here for a few years we are just looking into used cars for me.
After the test drive Jason dropped me back off at the Cactus store to actually shop there.  Last night when we were there Amber had a melt down so we got as far as the trampolines and then left.  So we forgot all the bags too.  So Jason and the kids went to the pirate park and then home to get the bags and then came back and Jason got a grill and we were good to go.  Here if you forget your reusable bags you have to buy plastic bags and they say something not very nice in French about you forgetting your reusable bag.  Good thing we had the bigger car so us and all the stuff could fit in.
When we got back Jason put together the lawn mower first instead of the trampoline, so the kids were not happy.  Then he mowed the lawn. On Sundays here you are not allowed to mow the lawn.  I think it took him all about 15 minutes and he mowed it twice, not too big of a yard.  We asked about having the lawn mowed here, since at home we have someone mow it once a week and it is not very expensive for a good size yard.  Here it would cost around $150 each time we would have it mowed.  Needless to say Jason decided to mow it himself!