Everywhere around the world...they're coming to America!

We are home. Well, we don't really have a home per se, but we are back in the wonderful country where my mother-in-law has a room in her house with boxes of our stuff, and being here is every bit as good as we thought it would be. The portions of food are huge, I can breathe the air outside and if I desire to go somewhere I can drive a car to that place. I can see what Neil Diamond was singing about.

The day after we arrived at my parents' home in Michigan Erin and I drove to a Target store to pick up some essentials (like shampoo, baby powder and home gardening supplies) and stood in awe at the entrance, totally enchanted by the huge scope of what lay before us and a little frightened to enter. It felt like we were not good enough to enter the Target chambers. It was bright and shiny and had aisles and aisles of things that we desperately desired but had absolutely no use for. I went to the bathroom (which was clean, had soap and hot water--amazing in itself!) then played with the drinking fountain for a few minutes while Erin gawked at the stylish clothes that were made in sizes she could relate to. It was quite a morning. We were definitely on sensory overload and loving every second of it. The employees must have thought us to be quite weird as we moseyed around the store touching all the clothes, ooohing and ahhhing over the board games and generally just smiling the big goofy grins one would expect us to have after 2 years of No Target Time.
It's good to be back.
:-)