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Top 10 best things about Germany so far (In no particular order):
1. Lots of DOGS!!!
2. Lots of TREES!!!
3. Lots of things to do just walking or biking around
4. Lots of nice, pretty cars
5. Can bring my dogs to public places
6. Lots of good food
7. Lots of friendly people with adorable accents and adorable ideas of english, heh.
8. Sooo many countries to go to right next to us
9. Ryanair. An airline company that gets us to several countries for CHEAP! Including getting to Dublin for 5 euro a piece.
10. Lots of little towns and villages that are extremely cute and low in crime and violence.

Yea this list could go on and on and on and on....but anyway, next list:

Top 10 Worst (INPO):
1. Lots of bees
2. Lots of nosey people
3. Obsessively strict laws about dogs, so if everyone in the home works, you must get a sitter, and dogs have to wear seatbelts in cars.
4. People are picky about damage, i.e. you hit a car in America and no one sees damage so they leave the scene to make it easier and cheaper on both parties....not so much here. One guy told us a car hit his dog and the guy brought him his dead dog and a bill for damages done to his car. Yea. No lie.
5. EXPENSIVE
6. Rains a lot (supposedly, I have yet to see that one personally)
7. Traffic Circles...and curves...and elevation...all equals sickness for me.
8. Too many awesome places to go and not enough money or time.
9. Weird hours at Omars' job
10. That I can't stay longer!!!

NEW HOUSE && PUPPY!!!

We have a hooooouuuuusssseee!!!! It's 2 bedrooms, with a nice big yard for Domino and...OUR NEW PUPPY!!! We bounced around the idea of getting a dog because Domino gets lonely and bored, annnddd we found one that looks a lot like him but is smaller. So we named her "Mini" because she looks like a mini version of Dom. She's totally awesome! She's house trained for the most part, she's quiet, adorable and plays with Domino. Her main problem is chewing, but once you say "no", she generally listens. And now for ADORABLE pictures of our babies!! = D
Their noses and paws and eye patches are so similar!! They both have pink in the same place! :)

First Sights in Germany

I wanted to make a post of some of the interesting things we saw once we arrived. We walked around quite a bit and saw some interesting road signs which we know now all of by heart for our test! We also had some interesting experiences....and ate some good food! We took the bus and a taxi and had a really strange experience with an older German woman. I'm not sure if she was drunk...or mentally ill...or what. But, as we were looking for our bus we saw an old lady literally fall straight backwards into a ditch, her legs flew straight up and hit the ground. We both ran over and my first impression was she was unconcious, she hit her head on a rock and she wasn't moving. Then she started rubbing her head and we tried to help her up. She latched onto Omar and told everyone in German that she only wanted help from him.....weird....so now Omar is arm in arm with this random German lady who's mumbling words to him that he doesn't understand and shaking her head. A girl came by that knew english and german and explained to the woman that she needed to step up (it was MAYBE a 12 inch step up) but she told us the woman told her she only wanted help from omar and she kept saying "what do i do?" over and over. We must have stood there for 10 minutes but what felt like centuries while this very strange very mentally unstable lady continued to speak to Omar in German and stand in a ditch as if she had no way out. Eventually she stepped up and we told them we had to go catch the bus....probably one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me. Ever. So here are some pics from our walking/bussing adventures.
This is the first trail we walked on, it's behind our hotel and is very nice and quiet.
This is a sign warning people about their dog...a lot of those signs are German Shepherds even though the dog there isn't one, they looove German Shepherds here!
Someones' backyard, looked cool. :)
Cigarette vending machine? LoL.
This is what speed limit signs look like
This represents Kaiserslautern, the town Americans are based in here in Germannyy!!!
Flower we liked on one of our walks Burger King we ate at. They sell burritos, beer, jalepeno poppers, tomato mozzerella salads, and wings. Weird, eh?
Sign = No Dogs :(
The table at a Chinese place we ate at
Bus stop sign.
Delicious Italian Restaurant we ate at!
Omars' first beer in Germany
Amaaazziinng Feta cheese

THE ARRIVAL

Ok so obviously I've been behind on this, but I've been soooo busy it's not even funny. SO! Because I'm starting this so late I'm just going to write summaries. The ride on the airplane was awesome at first, but the seats were very uncomfortable to sleep in. Omar had no trouble sleeping of course, but when does he ever? We were highly impressed to see our first sign in Duetsche, yes that means German, not Dutch, and that each seat got their own tv! [Yes, were easily impressed.] When we arrived Omars' supervisor and sponsor picked us up and took us to see Ramstein. The hotel had no vacancies so they drove us to a hotel called the "Barbarossahof" which is a nice quiet little town in "Eselsfurth" (there's an umlaut on that u but I haven't figure out how to do that yet). Basically we have no grocery store or gas station or any hope of food besides the very expensive restaraunt downstairs and the irish pub across the street, both of which are very pretty. The architecture, people, and landscape here are all very nice. The only problem I have so far is that I get rreeaallyy sick driving around. The only time I've been somewhere with curves and elevation was in Tennessee and I felt like hell every single time I got into a car. Here is a little better, but not much. I can't wait til I can DRIVE and not be as bad off. Below are some pictures of our hotel and one of the pub across the street, and a couple windmills, they use windmills!: