It has been a quiet couple of days at the Britannia Inn on base. Yesterday, Charlotte and I took a little walk around to grab lunch and some laundry detergent. I found out that upstairs in our building here at the Inn, there are free laundry facilities. I didn't have high expectations, but when my eyes landed upon 3 American style washers and 4 American style tumble dryers, all sparkly clean and empty ... I'm not ashamed to say I felt true joy. (Embarrassing. It's only laundry.) I did all our laundry in approximately 1/6 of the time it would have taken in the combo washer/dryer at the Old Dairy, and the clothes came out so nice and fluffy. Haha. Waxing excitedly about laundry again, time to find more hobbies...
Charlotte had a tough night last night. She has been teething (we think maybe those dastardly molars are starting to fight their way toward the gumline), has a cold, and had some diaper rash too. So she's been kind of uncomfortable at times. It came to a head last night around 11 pm -- we had all been asleep for about an hour and she woke up squealing, in what appeared to be some intense pain. She was arching her back and sobbing. I gave her some Tylenol and she calmed down quickly, but then seemed to become quite hyper?! It is dye-free Target brand acetaminophen, but maybe the cherry flavoring got her riled up. No idea. So she played with her toys and danced around and we even video-chatted with my parents at 11:30 pm our time. I'm sure they thought there was some kind of emergency, but no -- just an overtired mom and a hyperactive 13 month old. She finally settled down around 1 am and I was able to get her back to sleep. Another wake up at 3 am and 7 am were soothed quickly, and she and I actually slept in till 9 am!
Of course, that meant she was ready to nap around 11:15 am. We had planned to meet up with our (until today, internet-only) friend Kayla "anytime after 11:15 am" for lunch -- I jinxed myself there! -- so she was kind enough to pick up some food and bring it to our hotel room instead. It was fun to get to know her, as we have some random connections through St Louis and living over here now.
Tonight, we went out to dinner in St Neots with Kristen & Mike, at an Italian restaurant none of us had been to before (La Cucina). The food was really very delicious, and the lemon gelato dessert was absolutely fantastic. The highlight of the evening though was that a lounge singer started up in the back of the restaurant midway through our meal, and she and Charlotte really hit it off. She came over and serenaded Charlotte personally twice, which was hilarious to the rest of us. Charlotte kept encouraging her by bopping around in her high chair to the music, nodding and swaying -- the singer at one point said "I love that little girl in pink, I can't sing properly." We finally just turned her high chair around so she could watch the singer without having to twist 180* in the chair. As we were getting our things together to leave, the singer came over and told me that she teaches music classes to little ones and Charlotte has an excellent sense of music/rhythm for a baby her age. Not sure if that's science, but it was so much fun to see Charlotte enjoying the music. Kristen got a couple of pictures. A fun night that took our mind off the craziness of housing issues! We'll definitely go back.
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