Our New Home

We have finally gotten into our new home!!!  We moved in about two weeks ago and have been putting everything together since than.  We are in a small community called Netzaburg.  It is an American community off post.  It is brand new and has alot of space.  It is nice to finally get settled and to feel like we have a home again.

The front of our new home.

The backyard.

The view from the back of our house.

The other day there was a rainbow out the back of our house.

In addition to our new home we also got a new vehicle.  I sold my truck that I had owned for the past ten years in South Carolina and we needed a new car.  We decided to do something crazy and buy a VW campervan.  Our goal is to travel Europe with the van.  It has a fold down bed, stove, refrigerator, and sink.  We had a really crazy experience buying it.  I found the van on a German website and used an online translator to communicate with the owner.  It ends up that the seller did not speak any English, and at this point we don't speak any German.  When we got to the guys house we did our best to communicate with him by using the few words that we knew of each others language.  Once we decided that we wanted to buy the van, he invited us into his house to go over the papers.  His wife had set out coffee and bread for us and ended up giving Shanan some of the plum jam that she had made as well as some tomatoes from her garden, all with out being able to speak each others language.  Its hard to fully explain how crazy the experience was, but it was alot of fun.

Is that BoJangles on top of the van?

Hope you all are doing well.  Now that we have internet we will try to make more posts.  We have some fun trips plan to Munich and Oktoberfest as well as Garmish which is in the middle of the Alps in southern Germany.