My first week here went well.
Taking care of the baby worked out good. I was able to look after EJ without having to ask granny R. for help. Of course, from time to time, she fed him and played for him for a while, but next to that I am proud of my first week.
It was nice to have granny R. over. She took me and EJ out a couple of times. Having lunch with my host mom, visiting The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, go get my Social Security Number, ...
We live close to a lake, called White Rock Lake. The arboretum lies next to this lake, in the south. So one afternoon, granny R took me and EJ to this park. It was incredible! The domain is 66 acres full of al kinds of plants and flowers. Since Halloween was just around the corner, they had decorate the entire place with pumpkins. Apparently 90.000 pumpkins and over 100 different kinds! It was insane to see! They had even built a Pumpkin Village. Theme: Peter Pan. It is very impressive. There’s a ship, 2 houses, a crocodile, a maze,... I can’t wait to see their Christmas Village! The weather that day was amazing. Unfortunately a little bit to hot for the baby so I only had 1 hour to walk around the domain. I got to see most of it but I definitely want to go back to discover the rest!
During the weekend I didn’t do much. M. and R. took me to a pop-up Halloween store. That was pretty cool. They even had their own little haunted house inside. Compared to Belgium, this store was over the top. They had every costume you could think of and a billion more accessories. My idea was to be a Handmaid (see: The Handmaid’s Tale) but they didn’t have anything of that character so I didn’t buy anything.