1/22/08 Juliyana's first trip to McDonalds

Well as you can tell from the title we took Juliyana out for her first Happy Meal. She was all smiles as soon as we walked into McDonalds. I got her a chicken nugget meal and she seemed to like it all, but did not eat much of it. I'm not sure if it was due to not being hungry or the fact that she got a balloon and I made her put it down while she ate. We wandered around in some shops. After paying to use a toilet Donna and Juliyanas gloves suddenly disappeared.When approached the toilet attendant became extremely defensive. I suppose some grandchild has new purple and white striped gloves and she now has new tan ones. We guess she really needed a new pair. No wonder every store has at least two security guards.We then walked to get some more groceries. I can not get use to this going to the grocery every day but since we have nothing else to do here I guess it's a good thing.

We were not able to submit for her passport yesterday due to needing her new Social Security Card. The card did not come in and you cannot offically apply without it. It is supposed to be here today and tomorrow we will with a bit of luck we will get the passport applied for. I am not holding my breath though for every two steps forward we make there is at least 1 and a 1/2 back here. This region is so difficult and it does not help that we are 160 kms from where Juliyana was born so we must do lots of traveling back and forth on paperwork.