what a day right now looks like

We arrived in our new home city three weeks ago. We have been busy getting our apartment set up and dealing with the effects of all of us adjusting to being back here (which mostly consists of being tired, sweaty and/or grumpy).
This is just going to be a picture dump of what we have been up to.

A 'normal' afternoon might look like this:

 There seem to be an average of 2-4 power cuts a day here (that means no Air conditioning or fans in 35 C heat, food will rot in your fridge, no internet, in some cases no running water etc.) - so having a generator is great. Our friend's generator has been acting up for some time and after trying many different things to fix it we drove it across town to a specialized generator fixing store.

 Driving here is not anything like driving in our home countries 

and it can cause some serious road rage

the generator store

The guys new exactly what was wrong with it, did not even have to unload to fix it

 We also had to drop by the guy who is building some kitchen counters for us since our apartment does not have a real kitchen

 it is still really challenging for us to communicate complicated things like kitchen design in this language - we hope the counters will fit :-)

 Alia was more thrilled to be in the wood shop than it looks like

We also went to look at a car that we possibly might buy.

Thanks to the Norwegian government which gives money to every child born in their country, we can afford to buy a car here, which is great considering that the alternative would be all four of us on a bike with Max not wearing a helmet yet since he cannot even hold up his own head yet. 

Well, thank you, Norway!