Eventually, I'll have to make a blog post that details out all the craziness the Potter house has experienced the last 2 months with this move to Germany. Don't get me wrong. . . we LOVE it here & we are FINALLY feeling settled more & more each day, but getting to this point has been remarkably difficult with all the roadblocks we've hit along the way.
Which explains why my blog is TWO MONTHS BEHIND. Yikes. So I decided to sit down with my phone that is our only connection to the internet right now, to update you all on what we've been up to. (because our internet was accidentally turned off 2 weeks ago & the internet company here absolutely cannot figure out why they can't get it back on)
July was a crazy, but fun month. We spent the entire month in a TLA house (temporary living - aka hotel/house). The house was perfectly fine. It was beautiful, was in a great location, & fit our family just fine. But it wasn't home. We were itching to get into our "forever house" & finally have our things again. There were so many people moving here over the summer that there just weren't enough movers to go around so we had to wait until July 31st to move into our real house. But let me tell you, the sunsets from our hotel house were spectacular. We loved watching them every night before we went to bed. (The sun sets past 10 pm here in the summer.)
Meanwhile, we made almost daily trips to our new house in Hütschenhausen. We met with housing, we met with the landlord & signed the contract, we got German bank accounts set up, German utilities set up, German garbage & recycling set up. . . everything was done except the moving in part. We couldn't wait to make this our "forever home" for the next 3-4 years.
We would go to the house & just look at it, imagine where our furniture would go, walk around the neighbourhood just to get a feel of it, & go visit the little park at the end of the street. We couldn't wait for it to be HOME.
We also took SEVERAL (too many to admit to) trips to IKEA to look at furniture to help make our adaptation to a German home easier. German homes don't have a lot of cupboards or drawers in their kitchens, no closets, & no storage in bathrooms. The rooms in our house are really shaped uniquely (LOTS of curved walls) so we had to get creative in furinture & storage placement. IKEA became our home away from home.
Trek & I also got to explore FOOD in Germany a lot this month too. We found an amazing Burrito place that is pretty much the German version of Chipotle which was super fun.
And I've been pigging out on Doner Kebaps & Frickadellen (meatloaf) sandwiches any time I see them. Europe is a food lovers dream. I feel like I'm in a dream 99% of the time.
We also got a family year pass to a local pool located only 4 minutes from our new house. How awesome is that?!? Since we didn't really have a house yet & nothing to do, we spent most of July at that pool. The kids played, swam, & enjoyed every second of it. It's a great pool. It has large grassy fields to play soccer/frisbee/tag/picnic, volleyball, ping pong, 2 huge sand filled playgrounds with play structures for kids, 3 huge pools to swim in, a giant water slide, a wave pool, a bubble pool, 3 high dives, & a lazy/current river. We LOVE the Miseau pool.
It was a great way to get to know members of our church congregation too. Every Monday night all the families would meet at this pool for what we call "Family Home Evening," & we'd just hang out all night until closing time. It helped my kids to make friends REALLY fast & we just had a blast & looked forward to every day.
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