Wow! I had my first castle experience last Sunday! Castle Burg Nanstein (I think that's how it's spelled) in Landstuhl. Landstuhl is two towns away from our town of Queidersbach, it's maybe 5-10 mins away depending on whether you get stuck behind a tractor or someone riding their bike! Oh well. Anyways, the castle was so cool! I couldn't get over the fact that I was walking around an ancient building where lords and ladies once walked. Well I don't know how true that really is but still my imagination was going crazy taking me back and forth between reality and what might have been the past! I'm sure that sounds pretty dumb but I don't really know how else to describe the feeling. It's not a very big castle but the view was amazing! You can see pretty much the whole town of Landstuhl from the top, yes you can go up to the top of the castle and inside! The inside was much smaller than I would have thought but still very cool, the echo was great! The entryways are a lot shorter than you think they would be and the stairwells are very snug and have low ceilings. I wish I could remember what the history is behind this castle 'cause then I'd tell you all about it. I'll see if I can find anything out about it and report back later! Man it was awesome! We took a few pictures too so I'll see what I can do so you all can see them!
In other news, I'll be leaving for the states on the 17th of April for Jared and Heather's wedding on the 22nd! WOO HOO!!! I"m super excited about getting to see my family again and more so about getting to see my bro and his sweetheart get hitched!! Then I'll be heading back here on the 28th of April, so it'll be short but sweet, I'll savor every moment!
Also the weekend before I leave for the states, James and I are planning on going to Ireland and living it up or something like that...Yeah I don't know any of the details on that at the moment but we wanted to leave the country on his next 3 day weekend so that's our plan as of now! YAY!! I've always wanted to see Ireland so I'm siked!!! Aight well that's all I gots for now!! Peace!
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
GERMANY!
And now the post everyone has been waiting for!! We are in Germany, well we've actually been here since Feb 10th as I'm sure you all know. Alright, so where do I begin....
Well I'll just start by saying I drive by a castle everyday or at least whenever I go on base which is just about everyday! It's pretty run down as far as I can tell, James and I haven't been up to see it yet but we are working our way there. We are still trying to get settled into our new home. We've been in our house since 1 March and we got everything unpacked but not everything has a home yet 'cause there are NO closets!! But we have a basement with two rooms and a wash room so we've been storing our stuff that doesn't work here (some of our 110 voltage stuff) and other random things that we had in closets stateside, down there. Aside from that our home is pretty nice, it's a lot bigger than the place we had in Mississippi. There are 3 floors (including the basement), with 3 bedrooms upstairs on the top floor, the main floor holds the kitchen with TONS of cabinet space which is rare in Germany I hear and the living/dining room. And as I said before the basement with 2 rooms and the wash room where our tiny German washer and dryer live.
The plane ride here was not so good. I felt nauseous pretty much the whole 9 hours of the flight and couldn't wait to get off the plane when we landed! James was my hero, the meal they served us on the plane was really nasty so he went and ganked some peanuts for me so I could have something to eat and then one of the flight attendants brought me more later which was good.
It's very different living here, I'm sure that's a no brainer but I didn't realize how different it would be until we got here. If you want to drive anywhere in Germany you have to have your stateside license AND a German license. But then if you want to drive anywhere outside of Germany you have to have both of those plus an international drivers license! That's a lot of licenses! Also, everything closes really early here. Say it's 8pm and you haven't had dinner yet and you look in the pantry for something to eat but what you really want isn't there. You could drive all the way out to the base to get whatever it was or you could go to your local town grocery store, but the town store would be closed. I think they close at like 5pm or something, at least in most towns that seems to be about when things close, except restaurants, which is kinda nice.
One thing a really love about where we live is the bakery that is within walking distance of our home! And it's SOOO good! I'm glad our house has stairs otherwise I'd end up being 300 lbs! MMM yummies for Leah! I had to buy a German cook book so I could learn how to make all the goodies that we get from the bakery, I haven't tried to make anything yet but I'll let you know how it goes!
Last but not least, we have no home phone or internet service as of yet. Hopefully we'll get that hooked up soon. That's part of why it's taken me so long to get back to posting 'cause we have to go to the library to do all our internet stuff right now, which I hate! But oh well. I also don't like that I can't really talk to my family that often. I mean we have cell phones but they work way differently here than they do in the states and it's costly to use. Soon, that will all be fixed, I hope anyways! :-P Aight, that's all I gots for now! Don't know when the next post will be so keep checking back! Love you all!
Well I'll just start by saying I drive by a castle everyday or at least whenever I go on base which is just about everyday! It's pretty run down as far as I can tell, James and I haven't been up to see it yet but we are working our way there. We are still trying to get settled into our new home. We've been in our house since 1 March and we got everything unpacked but not everything has a home yet 'cause there are NO closets!! But we have a basement with two rooms and a wash room so we've been storing our stuff that doesn't work here (some of our 110 voltage stuff) and other random things that we had in closets stateside, down there. Aside from that our home is pretty nice, it's a lot bigger than the place we had in Mississippi. There are 3 floors (including the basement), with 3 bedrooms upstairs on the top floor, the main floor holds the kitchen with TONS of cabinet space which is rare in Germany I hear and the living/dining room. And as I said before the basement with 2 rooms and the wash room where our tiny German washer and dryer live.
The plane ride here was not so good. I felt nauseous pretty much the whole 9 hours of the flight and couldn't wait to get off the plane when we landed! James was my hero, the meal they served us on the plane was really nasty so he went and ganked some peanuts for me so I could have something to eat and then one of the flight attendants brought me more later which was good.
It's very different living here, I'm sure that's a no brainer but I didn't realize how different it would be until we got here. If you want to drive anywhere in Germany you have to have your stateside license AND a German license. But then if you want to drive anywhere outside of Germany you have to have both of those plus an international drivers license! That's a lot of licenses! Also, everything closes really early here. Say it's 8pm and you haven't had dinner yet and you look in the pantry for something to eat but what you really want isn't there. You could drive all the way out to the base to get whatever it was or you could go to your local town grocery store, but the town store would be closed. I think they close at like 5pm or something, at least in most towns that seems to be about when things close, except restaurants, which is kinda nice.
One thing a really love about where we live is the bakery that is within walking distance of our home! And it's SOOO good! I'm glad our house has stairs otherwise I'd end up being 300 lbs! MMM yummies for Leah! I had to buy a German cook book so I could learn how to make all the goodies that we get from the bakery, I haven't tried to make anything yet but I'll let you know how it goes!
Last but not least, we have no home phone or internet service as of yet. Hopefully we'll get that hooked up soon. That's part of why it's taken me so long to get back to posting 'cause we have to go to the library to do all our internet stuff right now, which I hate! But oh well. I also don't like that I can't really talk to my family that often. I mean we have cell phones but they work way differently here than they do in the states and it's costly to use. Soon, that will all be fixed, I hope anyways! :-P Aight, that's all I gots for now! Don't know when the next post will be so keep checking back! Love you all!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Today
Well, today is the day we're leaving for Germany!! In fact my parents will be driving us to the airport here in just a couple of hours! It still hasn't hit me yet and I'm thinking it probably won't hit me until we get off the plane in Germany and even then I'm not sure...craziness!
Anyways, James and I got to Marietta Feb 1st and spent a few days with my parents. They threw us a going away party and invited some friends and soon to be family (Jared's soon to be in-laws) and had yummy snack foods and such. I had a really good time and James seemed to enjoy himself as well. I was glad to see everyone that came to send us off, good times! And thank you to everyone that did come, it was really awesome to have you all there.
Then on Feb 5th, Sunday morning we went down to Warner Robins to spend time with James folks. We had a really nice time with them, got to watch the Super Bowl with them and some of their church friends that we'd met before, it was fun! James actually won $8! WOO HOO! We also went to the movies one of the night we were there and saw Glory Road. It's a good underdog type story, similar to Remember the Titans and movies along those lines. We also got to see the new Zorro movie, it was very entertaining, probably more so than the first so if you liked the first one you'd probably like this one as well. The little boy in it is awesome and he's so cute! Good stuff.
Well the next time you guys here from me we'll be in Germany! We'll be flying into Frankfurt and from there, I just don't know. Our sponsor is supposed to pick us up from the airport and take us to where we're going to stay so who knows. :-P We should be getting there around 8am and we'll be six hours ahead of the Eastern time zone. Love you all and if you think about it please be praying for us over the next few weeks or so and I'll keep you as updated as I can until we get officially settled into a home, YAY!
Anyways, James and I got to Marietta Feb 1st and spent a few days with my parents. They threw us a going away party and invited some friends and soon to be family (Jared's soon to be in-laws) and had yummy snack foods and such. I had a really good time and James seemed to enjoy himself as well. I was glad to see everyone that came to send us off, good times! And thank you to everyone that did come, it was really awesome to have you all there.
Then on Feb 5th, Sunday morning we went down to Warner Robins to spend time with James folks. We had a really nice time with them, got to watch the Super Bowl with them and some of their church friends that we'd met before, it was fun! James actually won $8! WOO HOO! We also went to the movies one of the night we were there and saw Glory Road. It's a good underdog type story, similar to Remember the Titans and movies along those lines. We also got to see the new Zorro movie, it was very entertaining, probably more so than the first so if you liked the first one you'd probably like this one as well. The little boy in it is awesome and he's so cute! Good stuff.
Well the next time you guys here from me we'll be in Germany! We'll be flying into Frankfurt and from there, I just don't know. Our sponsor is supposed to pick us up from the airport and take us to where we're going to stay so who knows. :-P We should be getting there around 8am and we'll be six hours ahead of the Eastern time zone. Love you all and if you think about it please be praying for us over the next few weeks or so and I'll keep you as updated as I can until we get officially settled into a home, YAY!
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