One House Down...

Yesterday we closed on the sale of our Frederick house to the People Who Shall Not be Named.

I sorta wish I had thought that through before I typed it, so that I could have come up with a better acronym. PWS(b)N just doesn't have a interesting ring to it.

Yesterday was also the day that we got our rental contract OK'd by the local housing office.

So lose one, win one.  Everything always seems to work out.  I think there was a Seinfeld episode about that.

That's not to say that there wasn't any last second drama in regards to getting the all the final paperwork signed, sealed and delivered from one side of the world to the other.

On Thursday night we got a final addendum from the buyers, who wanted some money because (and I'll say "we" here) we decided that we wanted to keep some drapes that we had originally put on the conveyance list (along with our basement freezers, which we had sold, and didn't  realize we were supposed to leave...oh well).

WWI Memorial.  Had an Iron Cross on the front of it,
not sure it is visible from this angle. 

So the plan was to have Amy print the paperwork from her office on Friday morning, and then we'd sign it, scan it, and send it off.

This made total sense.

As it happened, Friday was an Army "Training Day" and the floor to Amy's office was locked, so no access to her computer, printer, or scanner.

Landstuhl Internet cafe? Yeah, no printers.

Co-workers who could help? Yeah, all taking the day off.

Options: Buy a new printer / scanner at the BX (which would be a waste, as we have a new printer / scanner on a boat that is floating it's way to us right now), or, pray that in the time that we were running around the hospital that one of the people on Amy's floor decided to show up for work (and had a key).

It took a little convincing, but I got Amy to try her door again.

Eureka! And now every third Wednesday of the month Amy has to go on a date with some weird guy who came to work on his day off.

Small price to pay, if you ask me.

We also met with our real estate agent, the housing office, and had lunch in the town of Landstuhl.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating, the thing about Germany is all the Thai food you eat.

It's been a good Saturday.  The weather has been fantastic and I'm cooking roasted pork belly.  Might be gross, but it smells great.

Later kiddos.

Oh, and more pictures....

I think this is a convent.  It looked old as poop.

Hard to see here, but here is a lady walking her cat.
She had two cats and her husband was walking the other.
Whipped...

I love these guys.