When Life Gives You Smoke...

Make the best of it!!! The air is so bad here that the last several days have been "spare the air" days which means....the buses are free!!!! It just so happens that there is a bus stop outside our apartment complex so we teamed up with a neighbor and her son and rode the bus to another friends house. We hung out there for a little and then walked to a different bus stop and climbed on...7 girls and 2 boys all under the age of 8!!! (and three adults!). The kids did great and it was so much fun to watch them - they were so excited!!! We rode to a park, played for a little bit and then planned to ride the bus around the loop of the city. It went well except at the main bus station our bus turned around and went back the way we had come instead of continuing on the loop but they had lots of fun (and it was air conditioned and relatively out of the smokey air and we were with friends and it took a long time and it was free!!!!). We played at our friends house again while we waited for the bus to take us back to our house and had a it was a great day. As soon as we switch computers I'll put some pictures up. We've had our "delta breeze" come and we've cooled down quite a bit and the smoke is better and we might even attempt a family bike ride this afternoon if it's not too hot. Everybody is finally getting healthy and we're getting really excited about our upcoming Utah trip - we can't wait to be with our family! We're so grateful to have great friends here though who are spontaneous enough to be ready to hop on a bus in 15 minutes!!!