Perfect Storm of Pasta

by Mike:

The other families we know who arrived in Campus Village before us have been wonderful. Besides providing details on their life in their own blogs, they’ve gone out of their way to make sure we are settling in with ease. One friend met us at the airport and took back most of our luggage to her townhouse, so we only had a few suitcases at the hotel. Her family also had us over for dinner our first night in our condo so we wouldn't have to cook :)

We have also had the support of Santa Fe, a relocation company that provides a bi-lingual agent to help us with banking, getting cell phones, Metro (Costco-like) membership, housing issues, and anything else we need. Charlotte, our Santa Fe rep, has been very kind and helpful. She even gave us a welcome bag with some basics food items she thought we needed - potato chips, coke, ketchup (oh the American diet must be world-famous). And, toilet paper. There was some spaghetti in the bottom of the bag, but as we didn’t unpack it right away, we didn't notice it.

On moving day, we stopped at Metro and bought some food, including a couple 3 packs of pasta. After we moved in, 2 other neighbors also brought by care packages to help us get settled.

Apparently, pasta is the first thing everyone cooks when they move, because when we unpacked it all we counted them all up – we now have 17 bags of pasta and macaroni and cheese! Yeah!

For lunch we had mac and cheese, for dinner we are having spaghetti....
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