Germany Feb 16- Mar 5

So we are finally here in Germany. We knew about this trip before we got married, and I cant believe we are here and actually going through with this. There is no turning back. We flew into Bremen Germany at around 5 o'clock and let me tell you that plane ride was long. I learned always bring a sleeping pill because i dont think i slept at all. So we arrived with Andreas waiting for us at the airport (He is Russian, him and Chris work together, there really good friends.) He took us straight to our apartment or flat is what they call it here. We are living in Vorden which is about an hour outside of Bremen. We arrived at our apartment and to my surprise they had it all furnished for us and i mean furnished with: couch, TV, bed, table, all kitchen stuff we needed, washer, everything. Which really made me happy. We live above the garage of an older couples home there names are Alexander and Taunja Bischler. Both speak Russian so they can communicate to Chris.

For the first few days I got really sick, I dont know if it was the jet lag, with the different food, but something was not right. Im so grateful that I have a loving, amazing husband that is a worthy priesthood holder, cause after his blessing I was fine. Chris and I didnt start work till Monday so we had that whole weekend to play. We went to Osnabruck and went through the Cathedrals it was amazing!


This day was really cold and rainy so it was nice to be inside the Cathedrals. They are amazing inside. While we were there a man was playing the organ it was kinda creepy very phantom of the opera, but it was amazing.

Germany is beautiful it looks like it just came out of a story book. With all the history and culture. There is a lot of old beautiful building everywhere. There side walks and a lot of there roads are cobblestone which I love that. You can walk anywhere there streets are amazing once we get more pictures I'll post them of the town we are in.

Chris and I started work on Monday and it was a whole new experience for me. Chris' job is just the same as it was back home, mine is really different instead of working in peoples mouth I am plugging in numbers on the computer. Which is alright im not the biggest fan of my job but I really like the girls I work with. Only a couple of people speak really good english where I work but the rest do the best they can, but we seem to get things accomplished and the work done. That is one of the hardest things about being here.....I dont get to talk all of the time. But everybody is super nice and tries there hardest to make me feel right at home.

Our first shopping experience was a huge eye opener. We decided to buy stuff for ham sandwiches, something easy right? hahaha nope. In Germany you have to pay for your cart they are all locked together and dont come undone till you pay. Me and chris just barely figured this out so we ended up carrying the ingredients all around the store. but figuring out which meat is which and which cheese was which almost put me in a panic attack cause of coarse everything is labeled in German. So assuming by color we picked our ingredients and headed to the cash register. We also learned that germans dont bag there food they either carry it out in there carts or just by hand which was something new that i didnt know. We got the groceries payed for and survived our first shopping experience.

The Second weekend we decided to go to Cologne. and if anybody comes to visit us we would like to take you guys here. This city is known for the Cologne Cathederal and looking at the pictures its pretty obvious why. This cathedral is architectrually amazing!! You are allowed inside to tour. Inside is just as amazing as the outside. One part is all candles where people come and light them and pray and its like there prays go to heaven. The rest of the inside has amazing statues, wall hangings, carvings its beautiful. YOur only allowed certain areas but the places we got to see were awesome. We also got to go downstairs into the treasury were the gold robes,jeweled crowns, staffs,and artifacts are. Your not allowed to take pictures but wow the priest are blinging. There all in glass cases and in one was the artifacts of a six year old boy. Who was one of the men in line for there church but he died when he was six. but in this grave they found a battle helmet for the six year old it was just tiny. Rings a lot of war materials, but the cool thing was, was they found a vase that was still half full of oil. They figured the little boy was burried aroun 500 A.D.
It was amazing. After we walked through the treasury we decided to walk up to the top of the bell tower. And I thought running stairs in high school was bad it was nothing compared to this. Of walking thousand of winding steps. There is the first stop and it goes to the bells and wow they are huge, but they still ring them today. A lot of cathedrals still ring the bells. Me and chris wake up to bells every morning. So after we looked at the bells we walked more stairs till we were at the top and its a lot like being on top of the space needle cause your allowed to go all the way around it and see the whole city from an amazing view. Here are some pictures:






Like i said amazing!! We are loving it here, but are missing our family and friends. We hope all is going well until next time...


This is one of the LDS churches here in Bremen


This is the fastest Chris has gone on the auto bon!!!! He loves driving here!