Getting Settled

I've been here for almost two weeks now and am finally feeling settled. Our walls are still bare and we have no decorations, but everything else is put away. Our shipment won't be coming until October, so we will get used to the white walls until then. We want to paint, but need to ask the landlord. Hopefully he'll be ok with it. It's just too blaa for us!

We took Friday to go to Wurzburg and look at two castles. The first one stood on a top of hill that overlooked the town. It had amazing views of down below. It was overwhelming just to stand and look at the site. The second one was in the middle of town. We didn't get to go in, but were able to walk around the building. It had a beautiful garden of flowers in the back, along with several fountains. I could have sat on a bench and enjoyed it all afternoon. We also took some time to do a little browsing through some shops. They scrunch so many stores into little spaces. We spent 20 euro and were done for the day!

In the courtyard at the castle. It has a beautiful view of the rest of the city.

Climbing down the steps to a new view of the city. The castle had several layers to it.

We don't really know what this is, but thought it was neat.

We leave for Ireland on Thursday. We are getting so excited. We have watched a couple documentaries to figure out some good places to go. We received our plane tickets, car rental and hotel vochures this week, so we are set. We'll have to work on packing our bags this week and Thursday will come fast. Two weeks later, we'll be back and be ready to start full speed ahead. Jay will have to go back to work and hopefully I'll be able to start subbing.

We have realized this week that we must seem pretty stupid to the Germans around us. We have to ask for help with everything. We went to the internet store twice to get help getting connected and still couldn't figure it out. Then we had a guy from downstairs, Ole, come to help us. He was able to get on the phone and call customer service for us. We tried that, but they couldn't speak English. They said they would call us back and still haven't heard back from them. We have also been trying to get our tv hooked up so we can watch the Olympics. We couldn't figure it out so we had the same guy come up to help us out. He wasn't too sure either. The funny story.... we received an electricty bill in the mail... in all German of course. So Jay asked Ole what it said. He explained to us that it was a bill. Jay asked him what to do and how to pay for it. Ole said "you have job, you get paid, you use that money to pay bill." I was in the kitchen laughing to myself as Jay was still trying to figure it all out. Eventually we'll catch on to all of this. Until then, we'll continue to look stupid. Ohs wells!!