Thursday was a market day for us. The weather was overcast, so we went out with our umbrellas and the boys in their rainboots. We went to Kruidvat - a drugstore - and to the weekly market to get fruit and nuts. We checked out the rain gear at the bike vendor, though decided we could get that at a bike store for about the same price. The boys and I went and picked out flowers for the week at the Hippolytusbuurt Flower Market. Eliot chose the purple flowers and I some orange ones. Miles helped carry them home in the stroller and then fell asleep.
Jim has 2 late conference calls on Thursdays, so he took a break after lunch to go to the phone store to see about the phone line we are trying to get - going on 2 weeks now. It seems a bit like Qwest, and we get a different answer everytime we go into the KPN store. Today, they told Jim that because it has been 5 working days and we've not heard from them that we should have a phone line that works. It seemed unlikely to us, but Jim went and bought a phone before he went to the C1000 grocery store for me.
Like we suspected, no phone. After Miles' nap, the boys and I went back to the phone store to call the 0900 number for customer service. The way phones work here is you pay to call customer service for most things - airport info, phone, cable, etc. The problem is if you call with a cell phone, it can cost you $20 for a 10-min call. We can call from their phone in the store for free. I finally got someone and they are working on it. They were supposed to call us back, but haven't yet. No surprise there. We went to the post office to mail some photos, letters, adn Jim's expense reports.
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