Welcome to Germany

      "We have orders."  Those words bring up a whole lot of emotions: anxiety, fear, anticipation.   Sometimes where the Army is sending you is beautiful and exciting and other times it makes you want to stay where you are and just let the hubs go!  I have been on both ends of that.  Excitement over moving to Alaska, disappointment when the Army decided we need to live in South Alabama.  So, when my hubs spoke those words a few months ago I went through all the emotions.  Then, I let him finish his sentence..."to Germany!"  Oh my goodness I have been praying for this since my hubs re-joined the military years ago and it is finally happened!  It seemed like it took forever for our PCS date to roll around and we all went through a variety of emotions leading up to the day we finally left!
      We drove to Atlanta, shipped my Jeep, and the next day you could find the five of us making our way through the airport carrying an obscene amount of luggage, and finally catching a flight to Baltimore.  Two of my three offspring had never stepped foot on a plane and were nervous, but we talked up travel by plane in the hopes of calming their fears!  I laughed as the plane took off down the runway and my middle offspring said, "Well, that got real real quick" as she looked out the window.  It didn't take long for her to fall in love with air travel! We landed in Baltimore and hung out for 10 hours until we boarded our overseas flight.  8 hours, a few movies, a couple of naps, and a few beverage services later, we landed at the air force base.  We were all exhausted since we had been up since 430 am the day before.  We finally got our luggage, made it through customs, and found our ride to our new base.  The ride took forever!  We stopped at McDonald's for a bite to eat and continued on our way.  We tried to stay awake and engage in conversation, but the exhaustion won out. 
     Finally, we made it to our new base, got our hotel room, and got all our luggage into the room.  We were tired, hungry, and without a car, so we did the only logical thing...ordered pizza!  We ate, showered, and hit the hay.  It was then we discovered that jet lag is a very real thing and it sucked! 
     We have been in Germany about three weeks now.  Everybody is on a schedule and no longer suffering with jet lag, the girls have started school, the hubs is starting his new job, and we've been busy exploring our new home!