My Kingdom for a Air Conditioner

They were right when they said that German's don't believe in air conditioning...what I wouldn't give for the icy cool blast of a cranked up air conditioner, even the hospital is without air...unless you are a patient. Then by all means, air is pumped into your room. You have to be ill to be cool. Of course, this would have to be an usually warm summer-in the mid 80's someday and me without short sleeve shirts.

They do have in every resturant, store, movie theatre and cart...my favorite, Mineral Water mit gas...or as we call it sparkling water. Yep...gassy water for me.

Went Over The Big Blue Ocean

Well, we did it. After a quick bout with Tourette's Syndrome and cool down time where I informed my husband I absoulutely was not going to Germany and he could go without me...here I am. To describe the above pictures (I apologize that pic #1 is sideways, the picture is correct in the album)

1. This is the street outside our hotel room in Landstuhl, Germany.

2. This is the view outside our window...Nanstein Castle, google it.

3. This is our hotel room. It is a mini apartment.

So far, all toliets I have encountered have been normal-none of those crazy poop inspection shelves so many have talked about...but I have really only seen the bases. And have I seen bases. There are a total of 9 military bases in this area. And in order to get your processing done-and boy are you processed, you have to go to several different ones in order to get your ids. I have a id to allow me on bases and id to allow me into the hospital; ids for Alex because I sponsor him...we have been joking today that he has lost his identity because everything has to be processed under my name. It is a bit overwhelming, especially since I have never been around military. Guns and acronoyms about sums it up. There is acronoym for everything you can think of. I think there are acronoyms for acronoyms. And they expect you to understand this gibberish.

Jet Lag was hell-if I could have taken a picture of us at 6:00 yesterday evening it would have been a sight. But I was too damn tired. We literally fell into the bed and went straight to sleep. They had us running yesterday the minute we got off the plane and we did not stop until 6:00. Crazy.

Well, that is it for now-love, kisses and Auf Wiedersehen.

Finally--we are off!

Hi Everyone--
One week exactly before we leave for Germany. Thank you to all of you for coming to the BBQ and seeing us off in style. This is our blog page where we will be posting our German Adventures...or in our case Misadventures as we travel around Europe for the next two years. Sounds heavenly, too bad we also have to work.

During this week we will be doing one thing and one thing only---packing. You would think with all the crap I have sold, given away or carted off to Good Will, there wouldn't be a blasted thing left in this house, but...I beleive possessions are gremlins, add a little water and away they multiply.

We leave out of Lexington on Sunday and head to Chicago. From there we lift off on the Lufthansa to Frankfurt, Germany. 2 Xanax and 8 hours later we will officially be on German soil.

So, keep watching and we will be updating more soon. Love and Kisses Vikki and Alex

Wow first post

Just getting everything set up in here.