Dang.... How about a Blog?

Its really hard keeping up with  a blog... I will blame it on the fact that we just moved across the world! :D Its been quite busy here in the Childers home.

We have been enjoying Germany. It is very nice. We like it a lot. But it is very different than what we are used to!

The town we live in is quite small. Not much going on here. There are a few bigger Cities with more to do about 30 minutes away. The closes bigger city is about 1:30hr away. We haven't visited anything big quite yet, but we did get the chance to go to a few fest. :D It is fun.

Life is different here. Drinking age is 16 and driving age is 18. Its nice. It does make sense. Let the kids have some crazy partying before they are allowed to drive. Less teen deaths and deff less DUIs. It is definitely weird seeing "kids" drinking. Although they are only allowed to drink beer and wine. None of the strong stuff.. Although beer here is pretty strong Shawn says, but he loves it!

Driving is also different here. Of course we have the Autobahn, which has NO speed limit. However if you get into a car accident over 130 Kmph (80mph) insurance wont cover anything. Our instructor was telling us how this German got into a car accident and caused quite a lot of damage to the city. Well yea, he is in debt.... 2Million Dollars.... ouch. There are 30 different speed limits, The small streets which are 30 Kmph (18mph), City 50 (30) and 100 (80) outside city limits! And they don't really always mark them. You just have to know. What drives me crazy the most is the "right of way" streets. they are not really marked. Its weird cause the streets leading into our housing, which one of them seems like a main road, i would have to stop and give the right of way to whoever is on my right coming from one of the off roads!!! yes, i almost crashed a few times cause i forgot to give the right of way :/ Germans do tend to stop, since I do indeed have a BIG car.

The food here is definitely delicious. SOOOOOOOO good that my body is showing it. A very nice 10lbs addition in the last few months! haha... yea.... where is the gym again?

You know what is crazy about life here? How people treat their pets. Pets are allowed practically ANYWHERE. We went to the mall the other day. yup dogs were walking right among us. Some of them weren't even wearing leashes! A lot of dogs around here do not use leashes. They just walk right along side their owners. It is quite cute. I love it. Sadly to say, there is a lot of stray cats. There are quite a few around my neighborhood.

Housing was troublesome. I think I was just being a little bit of a drama queen when we were going through the process. They wouldn't let us rent in the economy because he didnt have enough rank. (BS.. cause there are lower enlisted renting) and he was ranked too "high" to live on on post housing. So we got stuck with an apartment.... 3 bedrooms. 1. i wanted a yard... 2. i would have liked to have extra rooms. It was quite a challenge trying to fit a 4 bedroom 2 level home into our apartment, but i think we got it. I think we would be able to live here comfortably. :D

All in all, we really do like it here. It is a lot of fun. and always something to do. Its starting to get a bit chilly so not much walking to the grocery store. But I do hear the chritmas bazaars are around the corner, so I cant wait!!!

Thank you for reading!!!