Rudesheim am Rhein

Our first day trip was to

Rudesheim am Rhein.

We made our way to the train station

earlier than the family wanted to,

but I was on a mission.

We purchased a day ticket for the entire family

with a cost of only 15 euros.

 We met a really nice German man

on the train that gave us some great tips.

The train ride was only 34 minutes long.

 The town was beautiful!

 We made our way through the town

to Seilbahn Ruedesheim an Rhein

We started with a cable car ride up the mountain.

The views are amazing and you travel over top the vineyards.

 Once we reached the top we headed off on foot.

The views are out of this world!

 We made it to the

Niederwalddenkmal monument.

It is located in the Niederwald Landscape park.

The monument was constructed to commemorate the

foundation of the German Empire after the end

of the Franco-Prussian War.

It was huge and could be seen for miles.

 Then we walked through the woods.

It was a beautiful walk with lots of shade.

 We spent about 90 minutes walking before we reached

our ride down the mountain.

 We took a chair lift down!

The kids loved it!

 I think this might be one of the very few

places you can not smoke in Germany.

 We made our way down into the town.

The views once again were awesome.

 The town looks like a picture you see in

 a book!

 Then we took a boat back to Rudesheim.

 We walked around the town and

 down Droggelgass.

The street is filled with shops, restaurants,

and wine shops.

We had lunch at

Zum Drosselmuller!

The food was great and they had

English menus and that's a big plus.

We got some ice cream and I did a little

wine tasting.

I was very happy to find a sweet Riesling,

because most have been very dry.

 Then it was back to the train and time to call it a day!

It was a great day and we plan to go back soon.

I think our first day trip was a success!

The kids loved the cable car and chair lift

and wanted to do it again and again.

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lunch trip with friends

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Oh Happy Day

We got our stuff!

59 days after we said goodbye

and the truck pulled away

4 trucks pulled up with all our household goods.

 We said 'auf wiedersehen'

to our temporary furniture

 and started the long process of unpacking.

 Opening each box was like Christmas

because you never knew what the

movers put in each box.

 Some boxes come with more wrapping paper

than appliances and other boxes get none!

Let's put two knife blocks with very

sharp knives in a box with

NO PAPER!

~SMART~

 Let's only pack half of something.

After the movers left the house we found the

knife to this, but could not find the board.

We found the board!

It made it to Germany, but the knife

is hanging out with Grandpa in the states!

 Even with a million boxes to unpack and lots

to do we always find the time to be a little silly!

The truth is we need to laugh a lot

or we would go crazy during this PCS!

We are about 95% unpacked and started to paint.

Once we are done I will take more pictures of our home.

The car made it about 10 days late along with tire damage.

Once we get that fixed

we will start to travel.

What do you do?

What do you do when you

have no car, no households goods and it rains a lot???

You bake!!!!

I hope to be back to blogging soon.

I am really behind.

This move to Germany

has got me all out of whack!

Our New Home!!!

We have moved into our new home!

I am so happy to finally know

where we will live for the next few years!

 (At the playground of the lodge)

 The long hallway to the right after you

come in the front door.

Our room is at the very end.

 Mr. Man in his room before the

 'temporary furniture' came.  

We received beds, a kitchen table w/ chairs,

couch, two chairs and a couple of end tables.

This is all we have until our stuff comes on the

slow boat!! 

 The master closet!!!

It is a walk in!!!!!!

 About five days after we moved in

we got our quick ship!!!

It felt like Christmas to me!!!!

 Dishes!!!

With that came a limited amount of kitchen items

so I could cook!!!!!!

 My coffee pot!!!!!!

I feel like a real person now that I can

have my coffee each morning!

So far we are learning our way around

the town.

A few things to anyone who wants to travel

to this area keep in mind:

1. Wifi- No free wifi like in states. I could get free wifi

at my kids school, coffee shop, any place I went, but

that is not the case here.

2. Public bathrooms~ If you can find one be ready to pay

to go potty.

3. No free water~ When you go out to eat you get bottled water. No free

tap water. Water is the same price as soda, and beer is only a few cents more.
 We realized we drink a lot of water.

4. Spring Water~ I can only find one type of spring water in the stores. Lots of filtered

tap water and bubbly water, but spring water is hard to find.

5. No free phone calls~ Even with a German home phone

calls to another German phone we have to pay.

6. No instant gratification~ Get a cell phone wait 5 hours before you can use it.

Cable will not work, wait up to 24 hours for someone to call you to make the

appointment to come out and fix it.

(That will be a few days later)

It is just a learning curve!

We are working it out.

It may take me a while,

but we learn something new each day.

I still can not believe that we are here!

As we walked around the farmers market one Saturday

I looked at Mr. PC and asked him if it has sank in yet?

We are living in Germany and going

to get to travel all of Europe.

The Army life might suck sometimes,

but this is one main perk of the Army life.

Once we get Mr. PC's work schedule

and figure out schooling for

the kids I am going

to start planning out trips!!!!