Posted by Ken Atherton under germany
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We’ve arrived in Germany safe and sound. Our plane was actually almost an hour early, so we were in our “vacation home” by 10AM local time. We slept until 1PM then I went to Thomson to get our rental car, which took about 3 hours, since they hadn’t booked it in advance like I expected. I tried to do a little work, but I mostly just tried to stay awake.
The place we are staying in right now is pretty nice. It is usually used by people vacationing in the area. It’s located in a village called Unterkirnach, about 7km west of Villingen, and practically a straight line from the Thomson facility.
We managed to buy some groceries and also made a trip to Wal-mart. We’ve discovered that frozen pizza in Germany is actually very good and also very cheap! It cost about 2 euros for a pizza that would cost 4 or 5 dollars in the states. There are an amazing variety of choices too. We had a Hawaiian pizza and a pasta pizza for dinner last night.
Unfortunately, we didn’t get much sleep last night. We put the girls down about 9PM, which is 2PM in Indianapolis. So, they slept like it was their afternoon nap. They were both awake and cranky by midnight. After about an hour and a half trying to get them to sleep (with Sandi trying to rock Cece, who was screaming like you wouldn’t believe and me trying to get Carissa to just stay still for 5 seconds), I got up with them, fed them hot rolls (German bread is amazing) and played with them until 3AM. At that point Cece went to get her pacifier and her blanket all by herself to let me know she was ready to go back to bed. We still had to hold Carissa down for a while.
Sandi woke the girls up at 9:30 this morning so hopefully we’ll start getting adjusted.
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