Goodbye Germany

When we left Roxel we didn't have a lot of stuff, but we had some stuff, and it had to be removed from the apartment. Not sure what to do,the secretaries suggested we just leave it on the street. This is just what we did, and it turns out that many other people in town saw us doing it and thought it was a wonderful idea. When we first started doing it a man asked if it was pick up day. In Roxel there is a day every 6 weeks or so where you can leave anything you don't want on the street and the town picks it up. We weren't sure when pick up day was, but we knew we couldn't leave our stuff in the apartment and things like a bed wouldn't fit in a dumpster-- so to the street it was. By the time we had made a few trips we noticed that our entire street was getting in the mood and so was our whole apartment building. We left before we found out when pick up day was, but we did start a trend.

Our plan trip home was a bit more difficult--dealing with children wise-- but we made it. The long trip was long but ok. Once in America one of our legs involved taxiing the runway for an hour and Thomas screaming the whole time, while I sat wedged in between to men. Once off that flight almost every single person said something about it-not negative but still they ALL felt the need to comment. Then after 24 hours of travel we thought we were a 45 minute plane ride from being pick up by family when that flight got cancelled and we had to spend the night in a hotel, and by night I mean the 4 hours until we were booked on a new flight. Still-- we were glad to be home.

We are back in the States and spending the summer in Kentucky. When school starts in August we will be moving back to Purdue.