day trip.

Last week, during Judah’s Christmas break from preschool, we took a day trip to a city about three hours’ drive away.  This involved hiring a driver and a car from a travel agency nearby.  He picked us up at 7:00 am, chauffeured us around for the day, then dropped us back home at 8:30 that night.

Something that is difficult about living here – that I’d never thought about much – is that being out and about, and especially travel, is so much more exhausting with young children.  There are no car seats here, and you never understand just what a break they give you until you don’t have them.  So in every auto ride, every car trip, your kids are sitting in your lap or sleeping on you or crawling all over you, or fighting with each other, or throwing temper tantrums.  Also it is basically impossible to use strollers because the condition of streets and sidewalks is so bad.  So you are carrying your kids everywhere all the time (especially if you have a three-year-old like mine who refuses to walk here).

For a person like me who needs space, I find this one of the most draining things about daily life here.

Okay, sorry about that tangent.  Having said that, yes, it was a tiring day, but so fun too.  First order of business was to stop about an hour and a half away for breakfast at this place some of our South Asian friends recommended.  It was every bit as good as they promised.