I flew out of Atlanta at 6:20 on Tuesday and landed in Germany at 9am Wed morning. My friend Katja picked me up from the airport and it was great to finally meet her after “knowing” each other for about 6 years online. She’s a Hunnie and as years of experience has shown a Hunnie always pulls through when you need them. When I arrived in Frankfurt we landed and unloaded out on a parking area away from a terminal. They loaded us up on busses and we drove all over the place before we got unloaded at some double doors. Once we walked inside we had to go up to another level to go through Customs and have passports checked. I only stood in line about 10 minutes so it wasn’t too bad. After that I headed to baggage claim and it is absolutely bizarre walking around in a place where there is very little English anywhere. Thankfully the important signs also had writing in English or I would probably still be walking around lost! Katja was waiting for me right outside of baggage claim and we headed to Wiebaden and Mari’s house. We got here about 10:45 and it was so good to see Mari again after so long!!!! We sat around and chatted for a while and I got to snuggle Gavin then we headed to a little Italian place to eat here on post. The food was great but by the time we walked back to the house I couldn't keep my eyes open. I slept for about 5 hours on the flight but it just wasn’t enough. I ended up taking about a 3 hour nap then we stayed up late watching movies and talking and didn’t go to bed until around 2 which meant we slept really late. I got up at 8am and no one else was up so I laid back down thinking I would wake back up in an hour or 2 and the next time I walked into the kitchen and looked at the clock it was 1:45. Oops. It is super hot here by German standards and since nothing is air-conditioned we sat around the house in front of fans. We went to one area of post to return something for Brandon and Mari and I went to the kids section in the PX here to look for a baby carrier since we are planning to go to some town and look at a castle tomorrow. There was a choice of 2 carriers and we decided we needed to try them on to see which felt best and I know it was absolutely comical. We pulled them out of the boxes and it was all straps and buckles, it took both of us to figure out how to get them on the first time but we decided 1 was way more comfortable to put on than the other so we went with that.
I took a few pictures on the way to post. Not to much to see on the quick ride, I’m sure tomorrow will be much more interesting.
German road signs
A McDonalds!
After that we went to the bowling alley or “Entertainment Center” for dinner because it has AC and pretty good food and it’s way too hot to cook in the house right now. It was league night so we didn’t get to bowl.
When we got home we had to take Gavin’s 1 Month pictures. I can’t believe he’s a month old already!!
Gavin loves to snuggle after he has a bottle. Mari has more pictures that we took and I’ll get those from her.
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