Still homeless

12:16 PM 7/19/2006

Since Saturday, I have been walking across the road every day to the commissary, shoppette etc. The Doner Kepab place is good but I'm about sick of Doner for a while. Here's a cool thing: the Yellow Ribbon room here is awesome! There's an enormous play room that is like Disneyland for babies. Jacob had a great time there Monday so we have gone every day this week for an hour or so. He wears himself out, and we go home for a nice long nap. There are also computers for Mom to use in "family" rooms where I can shut the door and let baby play with their toys. Nice.

We've kept looking for places to live. The outlook is bleak. Yesterday it was Windsbach, about 19 km from here. It's a pleasant drive at least; 2 towns and lots of fields. I can't get used to the steep roofs - it's HoJo land. But no-go for the house.

It was pretty clean, very nicely painted, and there were basically 5 rooms aside from a nice central kitchen/eating area. But the living room was just a slightly larger bedroom type space in a corner of the 2nd floor we'd be renting. Not sure how the couch and recliner would fit into that scenario. With the steep roofs, the longest wall in the room is like 2 feet or less tall... so if there's a window and a radiator on the other wall, where will the 46" screen tv (or 5' headboard go?) I'm not even sure the couch will fit against the little wall. Too cramped for me. This was the deal-killer for us. We are too much the movie freaks to be stuck in an itty bitty room. I am also hoping that the next place will have a proper bathtub. The German version of a shower is a 2'x2'x6" cubicle with or without walls that reminds me of an overgrown sink. We may be "too American" to live on the economy here... living without bubble baths? Can you say NEIN??