We're here!

Suki and I made it to Germany at 6:30 in the morning German time yesterday. Suki made me such a proud mama! She did SUPER well on the plane and trains. She slept almost the entire flight to Frankfurt. She did however eat almost my entire piece of cheese that was part of my meal on the plane. She only meowed twice on the plane and those meows were in response to me talking to her.

First we flew to Frankfurt from Chicago. Then we flew from there to Stuttgart. After that we took 2 train rides to Aalen and from the train station in Aalen to our apartment we took a taxi. I think I probably shrank a foot from carrying all my stuff. I had two 50lb. suitcases, a 25lb. backpack, and a 7 lb. cat. Suki was the easy think to carry. There was only time that I had to do some stairs with all that stuff... THANK GOD!!! The stairs were HUGE though. They were at the main train station in Stuttgart. There were 4 sets of 20 steps. I had to take one suit case up a set and then go back down and get the other suitcase and then do it again and again until I got to the top. I bet I looked like a freaking weirdo! Of course when I got to the top I look down the hall to my left and see a sign for an elevator. Go figure!

All the stuff I had to do to get the cats ready for Germany turned out to be a waste of time. I told the people at customs I had a cat and asked them if they wanted her papers. They glanced at Suki, stamped my passport, and waived us through.  There was NOBODY behind me either, so it wasn't like they had a ton of people to deal with and just wanted to get rid of me. They just didn't care! Hopefully it's that easy when Tony brings the other kitties over. It may be different in Frankfurt.

Going through security with a cat was interesting. They make you take the cat out of the cage and hold her while you walk through security. The lady behind me had a cute little puppy. Her puppy just sat there all cute looking around. Suki was freaking out, meowing and crawling all over me. She was even worse in Frankfurt when I had to go through security. The people there were super efficient and helpful and made it super easy for me to get in and out of there with her.  Leave it to the Germans to be REALLY efficient. Poor kitty. I'd be scared of the crabby security people if I were just a lil kitty too.

All three time I went through security they had to go through my bags. Not because of the years worth of medicine I had with me, but for my neti pot salt. They had to take sample of it and put it in this machine to see what it was made up of. I suppose it could look like Anthrax or something else like it.

The apartment is REALLY nice. ANNNNNNNND it smells like NOTHING! Imagine that! Internet and phone were all set up for me. I bought a cell phone today. It's pink. I also had to buy a bag of cat litter. Then I had to carry it up a big hill. I'm pretty sure I lost another inch or two doing that! How long until Tony gets here?

Transportation is a breeze here. There's a bus stop 100ft.ish from our apartment and the buses come often and ALWAYS on time. Again leave it to the Germans.

I had my first Doener in 4 years. Suki enjoyed it too. I also got my Apfelshorle, Multivitaminsaft, pretzels with sesame seeds on them, and salami. Life is good. 

The weather here is great! Sunny, but not humid. There are also no mosquitoes. I leave the windows open all day and they only thing that comes in is an occasional fly and Suki takes care of that in no time!

Suki def. isn't used to the hard wood floors yet. When we play fetch, she runs after her santa and then always slides past it. Twice she has slid face first into the wall.