We are here

Hello to all of you who check my post daily waiting for some sign that we are in Germany alive and well. Well, here is that sign!! We think we finally have internet up and running as of tonight although the wireless isn't working so i have to come down in the basement on Joe's laptop to get online right now. We had a great trip over here, the flights were not bad at all and the kids could not have been better. When we landed in Amsterdam after our 8 hour flight a lady getting off that was sitting a few rows behind us said, "gosh, I didn't even know you had 2 babies up here." So that was a nice relief. It didn't take any of us long to adjust to the time change and the kids were so happy to be back into their own beds. As for my house over here, it is HUGE. I don't believe I have ever been in a bigger home and I know I will never live in a bigger one than this. Maggie and Owen have plenty of room to play and that is just what Maggie has been doing.

It is very different here, and none of them in a good way. It's not horrible here at all....it's just no America. First of all, they have some stupid obsession with saving the world by recycling every piece of trash possible. Right down to your snot rags and the twist ties for your bread. I have to have 5 different trash bins for all my different kinds of trash. And then, you are only allowed to fill your different trash bins up to a certain point in the can......which creates quite a problem when you have 2 babies in diapers AND they only pick trash up every 2 weeks! So anyhow, we got in trouble this week because we had too much trash in teh can and it was the wrong kind of trash. ( I only know this because my german teacher read me the note that was on my trash can)

Mom has had a good time here, I think she would actually enjoy living here for 2 years. She has made more friends here in 3 weeks than I will probably make the whole 2 years. Not a surprise if you know my mom though! We have a train in our town that you can walk to and it will basically take you anywhere you'd want to go. She and I have done that a few times and just gone to the big shopping mart some. We drove to Denmark on monday for the day which was fun. Not much to do there but shop and eat but we can now say we have been there. As far as the food.....it pretty much sucks, as far as I am concerned. They are supposed to be famous for their sweets but I have yet to taste one that even tastes sweet. The good news is I have already lost 5 pounds since we got here!

Maggie and Owen are doing great. Maggie loves riding the train everywhere and alwasy insists on holding the ticket. (she only lost it once) Mom and I have had a few crazy experiences on there, the worst one being the day it stopped at our stop on our way home from shopping but closed within 20 seconds and took off before we got off the train. So we had to ride all the way to rendsburg, which is about a half hour away and wait there an hour until the train came back to Felde, our town. (This may seem like no big deal, but keep in mind that we can't read the signs nor could we talk to anyone and find out how and when the train came back) Lucily, we had blocked the entrance to get off the train to another guy so we just followed what he did.

Well, I am going to get to bed. I have lots of pictures to post and more to write about later. Just wanted to let you all know what was going on with us. Miss you all!!!!