Unpacking Chaos

The movers came bright and early at 7:45am, parking in their designated parking spot.
They were finished unpacking the shipping container by about 2:00pm.

The kitchen:

The Living Room:




The office:

The older one's room:

The younger one's room:

On Tuesday they came and unpacked most of the the rest of the boxes that we didn't get to (like the kitchen and Living room). There are many things we are still trying to find out where they go!

Our shipment is supposed to come tomorrow

Our shipment (furniture! clothes!) is supposed to come tomorrow. I was wondering where they would put the shipping container as there are perpetually people parked on our street, especially across the street from our house. You can only park on one side of the street as our street is so narrow.

Solution? Temporary no parking zone across the street from our house. Hopefully the neighbors will move their cars on Monday.

The little sign says "Umzug" which means "House Moving" on April 6.

Where have you been all my life?

Things they need to sell in the U.S., Part 1:


I like cream puffs....
I like Bailey's....
Even better together!

Krokus (Crocus)

Turns out we have some Croci growing in our back yard too! The landlord is starting work on the outside of the house...yesterday there were painters. I can't wait until we have a patio/backyard/garden!

Another bedroom

This is the current state of the little one's bedroom. She has an inflatable mattress on the floor and a wardrobe. She has elected not to paint.

We hope her loft bed will fit along the wall where the wardrobe is (on the right)

On the left is a skylight.

Was ist das? (What is that?)

My little one told me this is quite the popular fruit in the cafeteria at school...

What the heck is it? I thought it looked like a tomatillo. So we bought them to try.

We looked it up and tomatillo is in the physalis family...this is most likely known as a "Cape Gooseberry". It is pleasantly tart.

How to go Grocery Shopping in Germany in 25 Easy Steps

1. Gather up all of your bottles that need to be returned. Yes, they still do that!
2. Make sure you have a 1-Euro coin with you.
3. Make sure you have your shopping bags with you. You are tired of paying for plastic grocery bags.
4. Go to the supermarket.
5. Put your bottles in the automatic bottle returner machine.
6. Gather any bottles that the machine rejects. Put them back in the car.
7. Take your 1-Euro coin to get a shopping cart. The carts are connected together and you put in a 1-Euro to free a cart.
8. Take your bottle return receipt into the store with you.
9. Go shopping.
10. Marvel at why half of the "American Section" is Mexican food...but they don't have re-fried beans.
11. Go to check out.
12. Hopefully you have cash or your "EC" debit card with you.
13. Watch the checkout person scan your items at record speed. You have to bag yourself.
14. Feel proud if you can almost bag as fast as the checkout person.
15. Ignore stares as you bag the few last items and get your money out.
16. Put your food in the trunk of your car.
17. Smack your head when you realize you forgot to turn in your bottle return receipt.
18. Return your cart to the cart shack and get your Euro back.
19. Put your Euro in a special place in your purse so you don't spend it.
20. Stop by the recycling center to get rid of the wine bottle that the bottle return machine rejected.
21. Look back and forth between the green bottle bin and the brown bottle bin when you realize you have a yellow bottle.
22. Decide it's a green bottle and who cares because no one's watching.
23. Go home.
24. Unpack your groceries.
25. Try to figure out how to fit the frozen items in the little tiny freezer.