Week 1
Hallo!  Wie geht es Ihnen?
 
We arrived a week ago last Friday and our flight was uneventful, which was good.  We had a heck of a time getting down to baggage claim at the airport with a stroller and baggage cart-they don't have elevators going there, so we had to go down in a different area, explain the situation at an information booth and then they let us through a 'secret door' to get our bags.  An army guy was waiting for us, which was nice and we got hooked up with our sponsor and were on our way after Adam did some paperwork. 
 
We got in the hotel and did some more paperwork to get our IDs to work at this post and all we wanted to do was sleep!  The first couple days were pretty rough with the time change and culture shock, but once we got Bella settled into a good sleep schedule, both Adam have started doing better too.  We've really enjoyed exploring downtown Wiesbaden and visiting the cafe's and restaurants.  It's amazing to walk around with all the history and with Wiesbaden being like the financial capitol of Germany, it's pretty amazing.  The locals have all been really nice and helpful and they respond well to us when we show and interest and try to speak their language-which Adam butchers ever time, but at least he's trying!-and I'm trying to pull German out of my memory banks after taking two years in high school.  It's been really fun trying to expand ourselves in that respect and be open to another culture. 
 
We both passed our driving tests and are licensed drivers in Germany.  Once we get our official driver's cards, we can go back and make then international so we can drive ourselves to other countries too.  Everything is coming together and we have our freedom back because we got my car on Wednesday afternoon.  It's been an adventure navigating the language and the roads simultaneously, so watch out when we come back!  We'll be crazy european drivers! 
 
We should hear from housing next week about a place to live, but for now, our two attached rooms at the hotel have been fine.  We are waiting to do a lot of things until we get moved in somewhere, so for now it's fun to just explore and get acquainted with our new home.  There are lots of thing to do with Bella and I'm excited to get back into school in October.  Adam will be leaving for pre-deployment training in a week or two, so we really hope to be in a place by then. 

Week 2
So, the second week has been a little more mellow.  We went to more festivals and went to a bazar on post and saw some great things.  We bought like 9 bottles of wine.  Some for gifts, and others for ourselves.  We really just got to see a lot of amazing things that are out there, so now we can go looking for them on our own and get better prices!  Adam did get me some great tile and wood hot plates that go nicely with our kitchen theme.

Adam spent the week doing more in-processing and paperwork.  We've been getting a little farther with housing, so it looks like we will have something in our third week here.  It's not ideal, but we are in Europe so we can't complain!  We've met some more people and we are making regulars out of ourselves down at a bakery nearby.  They love Bella there, and give her free chocolate chip rolls when we visit.  I think they like us because we try to speak their language, even if we get it wrong.  We are just really trying to enjoy our time before Adam has to go to 'real' work and then get deployed.  We will definitely have more news when we hear from housing!
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3/27/2012 06:24:43 pm

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