March 4th D-Day

We got up at 0500, got us & the kids dressed, and we hit the Autobahn around 0550. The kids were super sleepy, but in a good mood { for once lol}. We arrived at the Airport in frankfurt at 0650, and quickly returned our Rental car. We it took us 45 minutes to get from terminal 1 to Terminal 2, and another 45 minutes to get our Tickets. At american airlines, they wanted to see mine & bells Visa { i told her at least 5 times to please NOT open the enverlopes lol.} we got our tickets, and went to our gate, security check went smooth and we had about an hour left until boarding. The kids did great, besides haileys little meltdown because she didnt get to run around, and bells CONSTANT stuborness.

When it was finally time to board the plane, i was in SHOCK that the plane was like SUPER small and had no individual  TV's in the headrests, DARN IT i was SO banking on the movies for bells and hailey. Oh well, Hailey fell asleep soon after takeoff, and bells started watching a movie on my Ipad2. The two of them are handled easily WHEN seperated,  but together its a TOTAL disaster, so i enjoyed the non violent, Fight free hour, that hailey took a nap.

Sadly it was only one hour, and as soon as hailey opened her eyes the two of them started arguing and fighting over simply EVERYTHING. And all i could think was.... "OH LORD this is going to be a LOOOONG flight" lol excatly four hours into the flight i had to seperat Hailey in bells, because they were just too wound up, and in each other’s Hair.  On top of that i had to pee like EVERY 5 MINUTES!!!!!!!!... i haven’t had the "frequent peeing issue" all through my pregnancy but it started TODAY { perfect timing huh???}

This was the worst/ longest/ most nerv wrecking flight EVER. I will NOT visit Germany any time soon SORRY folks lol..

After a while I decided to just listen to music, to drown out any fighting / arguing……….
I was so glad when we FINALLY landed in Fort Worth, Dallas, that I honestly thought about kissing the ground J

We got to the custom line and there were about 250 ppl in line in front of us :-o but thanks to my awesome husband being a Service member we got to skip them all and go straight to the front of the line. We went through imigration { which was super easy}

And then waited to for our next flight. We got to Kileen right on time, we wanted to rent a car right away but they said since tom is under 25 they would have charged us an additional 27 dollar PER DAY for a rental. We took the free shuttle to the Hotel, it looks crappy from the outside, but its actually pretty nice and clean on the inside!. We went to bed at around 2100 and fell asleep right away!. Now its 0300 in the morning and we cant sleep no more lol. But we should have this jetlag beaten  in no time!.

We are officially Homeless

yesterday { March 1st} we handed over the keys to the apartment we lived in for the last 2 + years. The Housing inspector came around 10 am and it was over quick. By 1030 we pulled up at the lagerhof just to find out that check in isnt until 1400 ... well CRAP.... tom had to go back to work so he dropped me off at the PX, the Lady at the front desk said they might have our room done by 1230 and to call back around that time. My preggo butt had blood pressure issues so tom came back to the PX and drove me and lil H to the hotel, we waited until our room was done and at 1235 we FINALLY got to check in!.
our "room" is actually a suite and really nice { besides the fact that B and H have to share a room which doesnt work out well.

Today we went and had some pizza with the Girls, and tomorrow we will have another little "going away party" at the local bowling alley. all our bags are packed and ready to be loaded up in the car tomorrow night!. We will be leaving Bholder around 5am. We cant wait for this new chapter to START!!!!...

Rip offs

We had to Rent cars for the whole month of february,
we usually go with "buchbinder" and paid 180 euro a week.
Well buchbinder doesnt have a drop off at the Frankfurt Airport,
so we had to go with Sixt in ramstein.
We told them we need a car to fit 4 ppl +luggage & carry ons
in the car. They said its 220 euro a week. I thought thats A LOT
of money but we had no choice. A few days later, T went to
Sixt Ramstein to get the car.
He ended up paying 220euro for the car + 40 euro "insurance"
{eventho that insurance is pointless since its a 1000 euro deductible,
and we would have to pay scratched etc our selves anyway. On top of THAT they charged us 100 euro "in case we dont fill up the car when we drop it off"
They want to refund us 3-5 days AFTER the drop off, BUT we will be gone
by then, and they can just claim some kind of BS, and we cant prove anything.
WELL, today was the first time ive actually seen the car, tom went and
picked it up by himself and got home so late last night we didnt
go anywhere. ITS A DAMN CITROEN PICASSO, the trunk is barely big enough
to fit ONE suitcase!!!!!. After i bitched about it for close to 20 minutes
{poor husband} he called Sixt and they said this car is an "upgrade" from the
one we were actually supposed to get, YEAH RIGHT... MY ASS...
They told us they have a bigger car for us and we can switch but its an extra 100
euro on top of this. so we basically pay 460 euro for ONE week.
we cant keep this one because we wont be able to fit ANYTHING
in it...
i am so over all of this, and cant wait to get the heck out of here!

Feb 26th

OOPS its been a while since i updated this blog, i am sorry but i have been SUPER busy these past few days!.
Yesterday was our goingaway Party and it was SUPER Hard to say goodbye to everyone!. My Mom made some kickass food {oh how ill miss German cooking} and it was dekorated real nice!. Almost everyone that was invited came, and we had a blast!. My Friend Nicole And my cousin Anne made a Video for us, and EVERYONE in the room cried lol. { job well Done Girls} We stayed until 1830 and then visited some more Family. We got home around 2130 and went straight to bed lol. I have a book full of little messages from the attending guests <3

Today we spent all day cleaning, packing, and throwing stuff out!. Tomorrow the movers come and get our U.A.B {unaccompanied baggage}Tom will also pick up our rental car {we cant drop of the one we have now at the airport it stinks}. Tuesday the Culligan Guy comes and picks up our watertower + bottles and we have to get another set of housekeys done since we lost one {ooops}
Wednesday is our last day in this appartment, we will clean out the fridge and clean the oven and on thrsday we will hand over the keys!!!!! I hope this last week goes by QUICK i just want to leave this place

Applying for on-Post Housing.

This has been the most Frustrating Part of this PCS so far. in the Middle of January we FINALLY got Toms Leave Form. We needed that Leave Form in order to get on the waiting list for on post housing. Well we started applying for housing on the Ft hood housing page right away, uploaded all the infos and hoped we will be put on waitinglist. After a few days i checked the online page again, and we were still on no list. So T called Hosuing, noone answered we tried for a few days until we finally got a hold of someone!.
She said that we cant use the online application and she would send us the forms that needed to be signed. That was right before the movers came on Feb. 1st...... well a few days later we still had no forms, so T called them again!. this time they sent them to us while we waited on he phone!. Tom printed those forms asap and we filled them out and mailed them back {email} to housing that was on Fev 14th. on the 16th housing wrote us that they never received the part with the signed Documents and we would have to redo that, which i did!!!. T called them again yesterday to make sure they got our paperwork, since they did not give us a confirmation email!.
after 3 hours of trying to get a hold of them T finally talked to Housing Division JUST to be told that we will be on an "inactive WL" until THE DAY WE GET THERE!!!!, Why in the FUCK did we go through all this pain if we are not put on WL until the day we get there anyways! i am SO frustrated!!!!! Waitinglist {according to the housing page} is 0-1 month for an E5 / 4Bdr House! we are only authorized 10 days in the hotel.... what am i going to do???????

GOOD DAY!.

 

We received our Visas Today WOOOHOOOO  it took a little over three months for everything to get approved and sent to us!. I am super Happy that it worked out for us!!! 

I also got my ID renewed and for the first time EVER the picture is accaptable <3 

 on tuesday we will try to cancel our Cellphone contracts, we tried today but the Telekom lady was down at Re-integration. 

Feb.15th

Things are FINALLY starting to go smoothly!!!. Today T scheduled our final housing inspection for the 1st of March, Housing also gave us our TLA {for our hotel} now we can bring that to the Hotel on post and book the Room for March 1st to the 4th <3
He also got an appointment tomorrow morning for Finance! We will finally fill out our paperwork for our DLA { Dislocation Allowance} I hope it will hit our bankaccount before march 4th!.
We have 11 WORK DAYS left until we leave {18 all together} EEEEK time is FLYING i love it!.
This is all for now i might blog later again after i talked to T