Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

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Sometimes, no matter how much you research information or ask questions of people at post, you will still miss things that would be nice to know. It can be that the information you missed is relatively minor. For example, here in Sarajevo sweetened condensed milk is hard to almost impossible to find on the local economy. So, you can either pick it up in a neighboring country (by driving or flying), OR you can try to order it via pouch mail and hope that the people working when your order arrives don't decide that your 6 cans of milk are a liquid in excess of 16 ounces and reject the package. Is it an inconvenience if you didn't know this before arriving? Yes. Is it going to impact your life every day? Unless you make sweets every day, probably not.
  
Regular water outages, however, are a different story.



Imagine that the valley we live in is a sink full of water. At night, the water shuts off, and slowly but surely, starting with the homes on the mountain/hills, everyone loses water (the sink drains) except for people at the lowest part. I am guessing this is because they don't want the city center to be out of water since that is where the main tourist area is. But we lose water at about 11:30 pm until 5:30 am every night. Oh, but you say, as long as you plan around that it can't be that bad, right? 

It also goes out sporadically during the week, at random times during the day. Unannounced, for the most part.  Today, it went out at 10 am. It is still out as I type this, and is not expected to come back on until 4pm.

Things that cannot be done when the water is out:

Laundry
Dishes
Bathing
Bathing children
Washing hands
Washing little kid hands
Flushing toilets
Washing little kid hands again...

Yes, this is the glamorous FSLIFE!*


*HA!**

**I still like Sarajevo, despite the water outages.

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