Today the sun came out.
We took our first real trip into the town Zentrum (center), a familiar walking shopping district called the Haupstrasse. We ate lunch with some of Team Leaders co-workers, and the kids had the most expensive glass of Coca Cola EVER! The euro, isn't really liking the dollar much these days, so
2,20 E translates into about $5.00 US! and it was just one glass...no refills folks!
**sidebar, Team Leader quickly pointed out to me just how much our lunch cost, and suggested I make getting hired here a REAL priority!**
Regardless, it was a beautiful day for a walk, and the kids seem to be making the transition to living in Germany. Team Leader and I keep looking at each other as if we're in shock...we're actually here, in Europe, mind blowing to say the least!
We're purchasing a "hooptie" (beater car that you buy to save gas and get around in-nothing fancy!) for TL to drive back and forth to work, and for me to learn how to navigate the crazy road rules and teeny tiny parking garages when we go into town. The Expedition will be our traveling car...trips off post, adventures for the family, room to sit without the kids killing one another! Dollie made a joke about her Daddy finally getting a "Golf Cart" as the car is a VW Golf and is the size of a golf cart! (We laughed, he didn't!)
Tomorrow TL picks up our truck, and fingers crossed, we're in Quarters by the end of the day on Tuesday. Our first load of stuff will arrive by Friday, giving us enough time to paint a few bedrooms, buy some new light fixtures (to replace the YIKES fixtures in our 50+ year old flat), buy some nice flowering plants for new window boxes and the outside area in front of our building and generally settle in...enough... before the 9 shipping crates show up and explode in our living room!
**another post on THAT, later**
For now, a snap of most of our family, to prove to our family and friends that we really are alive!
A full family photo will be next-promise!
umarmen und lieben,
Essie
6 comments:
You made it! And yep, the dollar/euro conversion is PAINFUL...
Hi B!
Your amazing photos have me green with envy over your birthday holiday in Spain...totally worth driving extended family to Paris, if you ask me!
Yes, we did make it, and if I can stop thinking French when I try to speak, we might be onto something...our 7 year old "learned" six words in "Gerban" today, including but not entirely limited to: SCHEIZE!
Glad you made it okay.
I guess that's something you have to watch out for with TL earning dollars. I work for a German (private) school and earn Euros, so I don't even think about the conversion rate.
LOL at the new word for the kid. That's said all the time here.
Also, we're currently voting on a date for the Annual Whiney Expat Blogger in Germany Meet-Up on my blog (in Dresden this fall). Stop by and put your 2 cents in if you think you can attend.
you are there!
hoooooooooooray.
i want more pictures.
and mike wants to come see you soon. he's very jealous.
xoxoxoxox.
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