And we are home...

Hello Everybody!

We are officially back in Austria. Yesterday, December 28th at 6pm Austrian time we arrived home at our little apartment in Baden! Both Dan and I were overjoyed to be done traveling. Everything went relatively smoothly... with the exception of a delay in Chicago that caused us to miss our Munich to Bratislava connection, which meant that we had to wait about four extra hours to get home, and some very swollen, water retaining, elephant-like ankles on my part. I honestly didn't know ankles could look like that. We were just really glad that the baby didn't decide to come a month early while on our nine hour flight.

The Oasis opens up again next Monday the 5th, so in the meantime we will focus on our visa appointment this coming Friday! Please pray if you think of us, we will drive to St. Pölten early Friday morning, January 2nd, to apply for our 2009 visas. We will be running around this week making sure we have all our paperwork in order and everything that needs to be translated finished.

We will also keep ourselves busy getting our house baby ready. Before we left Austria we had just looked at cribs so this week we will take an IKEA run to get the necessary furniture. We are really looking forward to meeting our little guy! Speaking of baby stuff, thank you to everyone who gave us baby stuff while we were home! We were able to fit everything in our four checked bags and take our stroller though the airport, which was great for lugging our carry-on around! I now think everyone should be allowed to take a stroller when flying. We did get a few funny looks pushing a stroller around but not having a baby with us. One women came up to Dan while I made one of many trips to the bathroom and said that she had finally figured it out, we had got the stroller for Christmas and were taking it home for our baby yet to come. The woman who took our tickets in Chicago seemed very worried that we had forgotten our child as we were boarding, so we assured her we had him with us by pointing to the belly! It was pretty funny.

Well we now need to finish unpacking our apartment and take a trip to several of the local grocery stores to fill our fridge and cupboards with some food! Auf Wiedersehen!