Establishing Ourselves

We continue to take steps towards being established here in The Hague for the next year. On Friday, we signed the contract for our new apartment, of which we take possession this Tuesday. We are blessed to have many people offering furniture and other household items to help us make a home. Kaleb will even have a race care bed. We went this last week to meet a lady selling some maternity clothes. She had a couple of boxes full of kitchenware that she said we could have. And Kaleb will be going back there for playdates with her 2 1/2 year old son.
We'll start moving into our new place on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
I bought transportation for myself yesterday also. Seeing that we are in the Netherlands, I purchased a good second-hand Dutch bike. So now I'm getting used to riding in the bike lanes and on the roads here. We've been fitting Kaleb for a helmet as he's going to be doing a fair bit of bike riding this year. We'll see how he likes it.
We are also getting a much better idea of what our roles will be with Crossroads Church here for the next year. After we move into our apartment this week, we'll be able to focus on our ministry functions.
We'll try and add some pictures in the next few days.

Touching Down in Den Haag (The Hague)

We have now been in The Hague for two weeks. In every way we feel as though we are finally getting our feet on the ground; literally, when our plane landed in Amsterdam; and figuratively, now that we are all more-or-less healthy (after several days of stomach flu for some of us) and are close to settling into an apartment of our own. We are also working out the details of what our internship here in The Hague will look like for the next year, but we are happy with the progress there. As we will be staying in the country for a whole year we must file for residency and get plugged into the system here for health care and what all.
We'll add pictures as soon as we can. Anyone want to contribute to our camera fund?