Many changes around Ringstrasse 39 (our street and house number) are happening! We finally received our household goods shipment. This involved about 7 German men going in and out of the house saying, “Miss, miss! Where does this go?” Honestly, I had no idea where things went because we have no where to put anything. So the entire downstairs became a sea of boxes and plastic wrap and more boxes. We had to create little pathways just to get to the kitchen. But a week later, all the important things have found their places and yes, we still have an entire room or two of boxes but at least it is organized. At the same time as the house was a ridiculous mess on the inside, they started work on the roof. Finally a purpose for the scaffolding that has been up since we got here in September! So this has consisted of a week of, once again, about 7 Germans in and out of the house. They put in two new skylights upstairs, so it was not uncommon for us to wake up to 2-3 Germans right outside the bedroom door (and they aren’t the quietest workers). During the day there is lots of hammering, thumping, a few loud bangs, and even a chainsaw used as the new roof is being made. I know it will be nice and hopefully do a better job of keeping our house warm, but Jordon has had a hard time sleeping during the day through all of this! I just talked to the landlord (Gretel) and apparently they will be done with the major work on Tuesday, thank goodness. They are also trying to fix our satellite for the TV today which is nice, currently it has been frozen on a football game for the past 3 hours which is not a good sign. Our landlords have been great to us though, and are trying to make the house even nicer than it is so we are thankful for that.
We are hoping to take a mini-vacation next week because next Thursday is our only mutual day off. It will be so nice to get out and travel again! It feels like it has been forever since we went anywhere, but I guess we would be doing even less traveling if we were living in the States so we are fortunate to do what we can. Hope you are all enjoying the (hopefully) beautiful fall weather! It has turned to winter here already and it’s so windy I wouldn’t be surprised if we woke up in Kansas one morning. Tschüß!
Our still-a-work-in-progress living room. Feels so much more like home than before! And if you notice the upside down laptop sitting on a bed of rice, someone might have spilled water over his laptop. Whoops!
Currently the view of the house from the street! The landlord joked with me the other day when I got home, he said "all done, looks good!" Yeah, right.
