Sixth Week in Germany

Wow. What a week. We spent Monday morning moving all of our stuff from the hotel to our flat. We miraculously got our security deposit back from the hotel. There were a few days that I was really nervous. 3 kids in a hotel room for five weeks. Scary! But it all worked out. The latter part of the day was spent grabbing some last minute things that we needed at the house like a couple pillows, a couple thin mattresses for us to sleep on, and a couple blankets. Tuesday and Wednesday were very long days with nothing to sit on except suitcases and essentially nothing to do. The weather wasn't good so it limited the amount of time we could play outside. And, we had to stick around the house because we were waiting for our much desired modem for our internet set up. Here are some killing time pictures of the girls in their red, white, and blue.

Wednesday night we were invited to some friends for a little Fourth of July celebration. The girls were thrilled. It was really nice to get out of the empty flat and do something fun.

Thursday was crazy. The moving guys showed up at about 7:40 AM. In my experience so far when people say they are coming at a certain time, they show up early. They moved things in until about 2:00pm. They did not stop for lunch or anything. They put together our bed and the bunk beds which was so huge. I did not want to have to put that thing together. The Missionaries came the next day and helped us put Bailey's bed together and we were off and running. We went to Ikea again on Saturday to get a few more things that were needed to complete our relatively painless move-in. Hundreds of boxes later, we were pretty much unpacked by Monday.

Greg gave his first talk in Germany on Sunday at Church, in English with a translater. Our pronunciation is not good enough yet to even read a talk in Deutsch.

Great week. We got so much done.