Back to Life

This week has been busy with getting back to life.  The girls start school next week so we needed to get haircuts.  I am not very good about having their hair cut regularly so they hadn't had it cut since February.  They definitely needed to be cleaned up.  Fortunately the place I bring them had availability and we were able to get in on Monday.  The haircuts were in time to have Ali's new passport pictures done since we have to renew her passport.  Her passport doesn't actually expire until next summer but because we have to renew our visas this fall and the passport has to be valid for the entire visa period (1 year) we have to renew her passport now.  That lead us to our next task of going to the U.S. Embassy.  It is a fairly easy task since you make an appointment online and then show up.  There is no waiting and it is, of course, all in English.  The only difficulty is in getting to the embassy.  Becasue of all the construction in Prague we were going to have to take the metro to a tram but to our surprised the construction at Hradcanska is finished and they have reopened the tram lines so we just hopped on the #20 tram and headed to the embassy.  Other than that this week has been filled with laundry and going through all the fall clothes in preparation for school.  Today we have school orientation.  I'm looking forward to getting back into a routine.