First Week!

Ok! Well. The internet here is very sporadic and is off for hours at a time, it has been out the past 20+ hours.  This is fine, it's not a lifeline or anything...she says as she white knuckles the table...  We will have to see if the connection improves or not during our stay.  We do have some fairly significant things we had been planning to use online services for but... it's fine.  Really.  Really. Just fine. 
So! Days 1-7!  The first few days were definitely an exercise in getting food and sleep.  Period.  Grocery stores have some interesting differences that have made feeding our family of 6 a full time job.  How many individually packaged heads of broccoli should we get?  No Costco here!  Each store appears to have very different specialties. I suppose this would be true of America too... a trip to Winco would be different than one to Market of Choice.  In one grocery store we could not enter before checking out a coin pay shopping cart, it had an electric sensor to make the door open! 
And the answer to why we were looking for what we now know is illegal bleach (yes, bleach is banned here) would be Landon and Anneke using the bidet to wash their hands.  Then as a drinking fountain.  Then urinal.  Ack!!! Going to have to pick just one use kiddos!  And also, AFTER we dump rubbing alcohol all over it....
The kids all responded to jet lag a little different.  A lot of this...

sleeping until 1:30!
and this... "Just somebody give me some coffee"  (AKA Drinkable yogurt)

but also this!  Two happy kids, the only ones up, playing with new toys special for the trip...

3/26
Landon came rolling out of bed at 11, earliest time yet and said in one long speech, "Mommy, its light outside, you should get making breakfast.  I'm going back to bed until you get done. Wait. I should order what I want.  Does Germany have bread and cheese?"
3/30
Everyone is fairly on track sleep wise now and lucky us we just got to have our second daylight savings time when Germany lost an hour today.