We arrived in Germany yesterday! It was a decent trip....we spent one night near the airport so we didn't have such a long travel day and boy were we glad about that. Layla loves Dora so we tried to explain the day the way a Dora episode plays out: taxi ride, short airplane (40 mins) loooooong airplane (6 hours), train ride (1.5 hours), car ride to our summer house!
True to her nature, Layla slept a good portion of the flight. She was also fairly drugged by the Zyrtec she is taking to try and clear her ears out from some fluid she's had there for a couple of months.
Typically, Ryan did NOT sleep as much, but Tom gets the MAJOR DADDY PRIZE for being patient enough to pat Ryan's tummy while he sllloooooowly went to sleep in the bassinet on the plane. After he woke up I put him on Tom's chest and he slept for at least another hour or two. Both kids have always slept more on Tom than on me (= I am one lucky mama.
Anyway. We are here but the ending of the day is better forgotten....long wait at the train station...no water or milk or food in the house. It was a holiday so most places were closed and we came in to town late enough that only 2 places were open. This is a VERY small town. Tom got us some interesting pizza that he and I ate while the kids basically sobbed (=
So off to bed and again, Layla slept like a rock and Ryan woke up 2-3 time. We simply MUST sort out Ryan's sleeping habits. Anyway.
We had a lovely family walk this morning....early. We stopped for a cafe au lait at a quaint little coffee shop in the town square. Really - this place is like a movie set. Everything is beautiful and green and has flowers tucked in every side place. People ride bicycles everywhere and you can HEAR life all around you. We are so used to having air conditioners on that you barely hear anything outside the house! Here you can hear the people talking outside your windows!
The trash and recycling is a HUGE deal here. I am still nervous about throwing anything away! Glass and plastic have their separate places, wet paper, dry paper goods and food are all separate. She has 4 trash cans and one other one I haven't even found yet!
We have the typical issues of trying to settle into someone else's house (where ARE the pot holders? how does the coffee pot work??) and we are still recovering from the travel but are looking forward to feeling a little more rested and enjoying the lovely weather and town.
Grateful to be here....
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