First "Real" Day

Well, time for a second post from our second day! We slept soooo much last night. Literally napped from 4pm-9pm then slept like 1am-10am. How pathetic, damn jet lag. At least after our 15 hours of sleep we had a productive day!

First and foremost- the pretty view from our hotel room (which we only will be enjoying until Saturday when we move out!!)

Love the view of all the trees and how private it is. It sounds pretty in the breeze!

Figured I'd start with that photo since it was from this morning. Only seemed right.

But we slept good, got ready and Nelson got us to run around more today. We were able to stop by the shop (Rob's work building) and meet some people. Everyone seemed nice (I'm still keeping in mind that it's day one). After that Rob had to get some paperwork done, I followed :D.

Most exciting part of the paperwork part of the day was our ration cards. Didn't know we'd be getting those. But we each get one so I don't feel like we'll be running short on anything, main concern, running out of liquor (since we're not huge coffee drinkers or cigarette smokers) but we're allowed like 4L each a month. Unlimited and un-rationed beer though lol

[the backside] they are used for coffee, cigarettes, and liquor

After paper work came housing!!! Which I was super excited about since Nelson seemed to think we'd be able to get keys to look at some apartments today (which we were). Four apartments to be exact. The first two we saw were nice, nearly the same just mirrored floor plans. The third one was PERFECT and, well the fourth one was like the first two and we had already basically chosen the third one.

Yay for house keys! after the inspection tomorrow afternoon they'll be ours!

The bathroom had good storage and double sinks. The floors were a light wood everywhere else besides the tile in the bathroom. It had a separate laundry room, with the larger American washer and dryer, which was a big deal since the others had smaller European machines AND they were in the kitchen. The kitchen was big and had a island/pass-through thingy to the living space which was a bonus. The bedrooms had built in wardrobes with shelving and mirrors on the doors (every girl loves a full size mirror). Basically we're stoked! After watching all those international house-hunter shows I feared we would end up in a very small place and that we wouldn't have options to pick from just be given an apartment. We'll post pictures once we move in for sure! Till our household goods get here (in like a month = oh my) we'll have government issued furniture to use AKA like furnished college apartment status. But hey, furniture is furniture and it's free. Either way, we're excited. Tomorrow we meet at the apartment with an inspector and sign for the keys. Then we move in on Saturday :D

Next, we went to the Post Office and set up our APO box. Now I can, A) order my super cool textbooks for this coming semester B) get new glasses sent here and C) give it out to family back home!! >>So hit us up on Facebook if you want it!

After all the running around we snagged some snack food for the hotel, headed back and ordered pizza from a local pizza place Nelson recommended. Pizzeria Etna.

Different taste, but still tasty! can't wait to get a kitchen and start cooking again tho!

Now it's time to review the German lesson from last night WITH Rob and get ready for bed. He decided to learn German with me = #majorsuccess.

Gute nacht bloggers! Hasta manana!