3403 Poplarstrasse A3

"Good night Ward, dear." "Good night June, dear." This is what Garrett and I say to eachother before we go to bed, since the picture of the 2 single beds above is actually Garr's and my room. The first hotel we stayed at in Germany only had single beds and most of the hotels are like this. I figure that's why Germany has a negative population growth right now. All the furniture in our apartment is military temporary furniture, until our stuff comes. They would only allow us to have a double bed for Garrett and me and we decided to continue to explore this negative population growth and keep the kids single beds and give Jacob and Joseph the double bed. It's like "Leave it to Beaver" at our house every night, with more color. Our sponsors, the McLeans let us use some sheets, but because we have such a big family we were dividing the sets up so everyone can have a bottom sheet and then a blanket over the top. Currently Garrett sleeps on Tinkerbell sheets and a leopard print pillowcase! If that's not emasculating, I don't know what is. (Not a homo like one of our dear friends--we won't mention any names.)

We are living at the left, closer end of the building on the third floor (38 stairs up, which is no easy thing, if you're trying to bring in groceries). If you look hard in the apartment building pix you can see the boys at our building entrance.

I included a picture of the towel warmers in the bathroom so you could all get the impression that we're living the high life. They are actually the towel warmers and radiators for the bathroom. The whole house if warmed with radiators. Air conditioning, what's air conditioning? Germans don't use air conditioning period. We're still working on living off-base, in a German apartment, but we'll see what happens.