Welcome Carlotta!

Perhaps this year I can keep this thing current. Let's cross our fingers!

So for those to know, or don't know, Carlotta arrived on Thursday! She arrived from Germany Thursday evening. Between traffic and her flight getting in 15 minutes early, we were a tad late. We at least beat her luggage ;-)

That evening we went to Toot's, which is a local restaurant. William and Carlotta enjoyed burgers while I ate a salad. My salad was sad looking. I think Carlotta managed to stay awake for about an hour after we got home before she gave in to the need to sleep.

I was shocked Friday morning when we were all up by 8:30. I expected Carlotta to sleep in until noon, but she was awake and cheerful at 8:30. We made a sad attempt at cooking breakfast. The pancakes turned out more like fried biscuits. We had scrambled eggs and bacon for backup. Sadly, this is the third person in my life who eats their eggs with ketchup. I'm outnumbered, but I have no intentions on joining the club. Will and Carlotta drove around for a bit in the morning to show her around the area. We also went out to Mariemont to show her the town square that looks like a German village. It's cute, but totally odd.

We went to my Mom's house and also ran into my Uncle. Carlotta got to meet the twins and play with them for a bit. We went to LaRosa's for lunch and grilled out for dinner.

Today we were expecting it to storm all day so we didn't plan much. Sadly it didn't. Regardless, we went to Jungle Jim's and Best Buy which is always fun. I think Carlotta is starting to feel some jet lag. Better to get it now versus when school starts.

I've contacted some coaches at school and I am crossing my fingers she can participate in a fall sport. It will give her an opportunity to meet some of the kids before school starts and a chance to get involved. Being a young host family has it's up side and down sides. It's nice that we are young and active - I mean we like to go out and explore new things. The major down side is the lack of companionship. Being an only child can be lonely, and even more so for an exchange student. I was so worried that Yuki was bored last year, and I worry about Carlotta too. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not an issue this year.

Tomorrow we'll see where the road takes us! School starts in a little over a week. Hopefully we can get in a few things before school takes over her life!