Another update!!!

Everything is slowly, but surely coming together!

I forgot to mention in my last post the the kids started Awana on the 21st of Sept. at a church off base in the local area.  Bill and I made the decision to be co-leaders for games since they were needing someone to step up.  It is pretty fun so far, we are excited to get to know all the kids this year!

On the 26th of September (Friday) since the kids didn't have school, we decided to go on the Benvenuti Tour through the Airman and Family Readiness Center.  We rode on a bus to learn more about the local area, went to a local market, stopped into a coffee/pastry shop and chocolate shop, learned how to purchase train tickets, rode on a train, ate a late lunch at a very nice ristorante, Cial de Brent, and toured the Le Favole Winery.  It was a great experience for all of us!

Sunday the 28th we attended a potluck after church.  I have to say that I truly miss our church families in San Antonio both at Zion, the chapel on base and Village Parkway, I really dislike being the new people.  Once we get settled I need to get myself involved more again.  Right now it feels like it is still so far away...

The 29th Bill and I spent cleaning the house and packing up our TLF room.  Speaking of our TLF room I forgot to share our exciting story of the flood right outside our door in the middle of the night.  On the 22nd we were woken up to someone pounding on our door at 3:00 am, here a waterline had broke right by our door.  Alyssa spent all night up with Bill and I packing up all our stuff and moving to a new room in a another building, it was early to bed for all of us that night.  We really lucked out and nothing of ours was damaged.  It was just really crumby that we had to move rooms just a week and a day before we were going to move out.

September 30th was the big day!  All of our household goods arrived, 13 full crates, 1 mattress crate and our early shipment crate.  We have spent the last week working on unpacking everything, and still have so much to do.  I have learned to appreciate all the closet space and kitchen cabinets that the US has to offer.  When we lived in Germany the house we were in had extra cabinets in the house for the kitchen, so we didn't have this issue.  We are going shopping this weekend for more storage cabinets.  Oh and so far we have 6 boxes packed up of our 110 volt items that we cannot use here, I am sort of wishing we would have stored it back in the US as we can really use the storage space.  I am excited to get everything put all away and all the pictures up on the walls, pictures to come!

On the 1st of October I attending my first PTA meeting for the kids school.  Another place where it is really hard to be the new person that has no clue what is going on.  It was nice to get a feel for what they do for the school here in Aviano, which seems to be a lot!

On the 3rd we all went to the semi-annual Bazaar that they put on here in Aviano.  We picked up some delicious stroopwafels and liquore fragoline di bosco.  The stroopwafels we had had in Germany before, so we stocked up until the next Bazaar!

Monday the 6th the installer came to put in our home phone and internet!  It is nice to have access to technology again and be able to call our family and friends when we want.

Monday afternoon Alyssa was in a baton performance and did a great job!  I sort of wish this would go longer than four weeks as Alyssa really enjoyed it.  She learned a lot and her teacher was impressed how quickly she caught on.  She is now an owner of her very own baton and I'm sure she will participate next year too!

Until next time....ciao!