Thursday...ummm Day 5?

Today was fairly uneventful....busy this morning, but like many other days, everything was in the morning. We had our WIC Overseas appointment this morning at 9:30- it was cold and misting rain, but did clear up a bit later on. Our appointment went well- the lady who did our paperwork and introduced us into the program was very nice, and answered a lot of questions for us. I am hoping I have a doctor like her. She gave us 3 months of our vouchers, and told us to call and set up an appointment after the baby was born.

After our appointment, we went to the housing office to set up for them to come and get all the loaner stuff in our apartment...BECAUSE OUR STUFF IS HERE! I am sooooo glad it is here already...I wasn't sure I could handle not having our stuff for 2 months....or even until next month! The lady that Mark talked to said that she was surprised that it was here already- as it was was sent out early. We should have it delivered next week on the 15th! I am hoping it won't have time to sit in storage long enough for things to start disappearing...(apparently it happens a lot here?) It will be so nice to be able to get stuff set up and ready for the baby to get here...I was worrying a bit about that.

Along with our house stuff being here...our car is also here. Mark went and got it the other day. Sadly, Chicka (the car) failed German inspection. Apparently they check to see how fast you can break here...and she just doesn't do it fast enough. I am hoping that this is just a matter of an adjustment...and that it will not cost us a million dollars. Mark said that labor here is $85 an hour...not really looking forward to that part.

We also went to "Self Help" today- it is a place where you can go and get stuff to replace broken stuff in your housing...as opposed to having to go and buy it on economy. It is all free, and they can loan stuff to you to use- like lawn mowers and yard tools (we won't need that, but other people will need it). All you have to do is take a "class" (10 min where they tell you what you can come and get).

My day was pretty much over at 11, as Mark had to go back in to work early (guess we are back to being in the "real" Army lol) I did find one of the signs in the bathroom that tells you to clean it...so I took a picture of it. I also took the picture of my broken airplane panel off my cell phone to post...I will post them at the bottom of this :)

Today's findings....

1. Today it didn't smell like boiled eggs anywhere I was....however on the way to the WIC office, it smelled like chewing tobacco and raisins...I am wondering if Germany ever smells "normal" or if it is going to be a surprise gross smell every couple of days lol.
2. I tried "joghurt mit der ecke- erdeere"- which translates (apparently) to yogurt with the corner of strawberry lol. It comes in a container with a bigger compartment of plain yogurt (which isn't as tart as ours back home, so it was nice, and a small compartment of strawberry stuff to mix in. I thought it was a nice treat.

Anyway, here are the pictures....

The top 2 are from the plane...in the 2nd one, the man sitting that is looking was the one who took out his camera and took a picture of it. I did recieve and email with a $200 voucher towards a ticket...I am hoping I can use it toward my ticket this fall!

The last one is the picture from the bathroom...now, so far, I have yet to go into a public bathroom in Germany that was dirty...just something to think about U.S. lol