Grapes from our house!

Grapes from the vine at our new house!

Carl showing some of our favorite German yogurts!

Tonight, we visited our house and met with the landlord briefly so we could exchange our information for some of the utilities. She showed us around the house again and it looked more beautiful than we imagined. She has been working on it pretty much every day since we signed the lease: weeding, painting, cleaning, scrubbing, fixing things. We never even thought it needed work! But, she has gone above and beyond in making it impeccable and gorgeous. We are so excited to move in!! The house is more amazing than we imagined and could have dreamed for. It once again left me with the thought of "We seriously get to live there?!"

She also took us back to the garden again and gave us our first taste of the grapes growing on the vines! The picture above is me holding some here at our temp apartment! How cool is that? We got to eat the grapes that grew in what is soon to be part of our own backyard! She said they are edible right off the vine -- no chemicals, etc. -- but we opted to bring them back and at least rinse them off. They are very sweet yet tart at the same time. Delicious! And so fresh!

We also of course stopped at the Rewe (a grocery store, pronounced "Ree-vah") right around the corner and replenished our yogurt stock. There were new brands we hadn't tried yet so we are super excited to chow down on more yummy German yogurts! Don't worry, we got real food as well.

Over the weekend we rented a couple movies at the PX, one being the John Adams mini-series on DVD. We are only three hours in to the eight-hour show, but we love it! We've watched a little bit each night and highly recommend it.

On to real news: There is a VERY strong hope right now that we've found Carl a job. He did get a job offer to be an AAFES stocker, and will do that if need be, but this other job is just what he's looking for. We're keeping fingers crossed and praying it will work out. I will write more about that once we know something for sure.

Other big news is that apparently we are trendsetters! Thanks to faithful blog readers Jennie (Dude Sis-in-Law) and Whitney (Dude's Co-Worker Dude) I have been informed that the 'eyebrow string thing' from the last blog is actually a very popular European trend known as 'eyebrow threading.' Huh! Who would have thought that while in Europe we would ourselves become trendsetters and participate in something that is making its way to Hollywood as I write this!!

As for this past weekend, well, it produced some dumb results for work at the football game. I will spare the details in much length except to say that I met some very unappreciative and unprofessional football coaches, but the problem is on its way to being solved.

Tomorrow, I am participating in some media training with NATO troops. It should be fun!