Tony and the kids are here!

Tony and the kids arrived yesterday! It was def. a day to remember for a several reasons.

1. My train decided to take a 40 min. pit stop in the middle of a corn field due to electrical difficulties. (I don't seem to be having the greatest luck with German trains so far!)

2. Tony's plane was delayed by two hours.

3. Punky peed all over.

4. We had to give Spunky and Ruthie a bath.

5. We traipsed through town with 20lb. of cat litter.

I arrived at the airport almost an hour late due to the a fore mentioned pit stop in a corn field. I'm all freaking out thinking Tony and the kids had probably been standing there for an hour wondering where and the heck I was. I wasn't aware that his plane was delayed.

Then I get to the airport and I'm standing there forever and EVER. Finally, I overheard a bunch of American military men behind me complaining about how they too were waiting for somebody who was on the flight from Chicago. Then I at least felt a little better about my corn pit stop.... not that this pit stop had been my fault.

FINALLY, after what seemed like a million years later, Tony walks out with a mountain of luggage and my CHILDREN... in pink carriers. I gave him and big kiss.  Then I smelled something REALLY REALLY bad. Apparently Spunky had pissed herself on the ride over. Man, did she stink and we had to smell her on the train from Frankfurt to Stuttgart and then on the train from Stuttgart to Aalen and then on the bus to our house. On the train from Stuttgart to Aalen we didn't even sit down, we just stood in the doorway of the train because we didn't want to make other people smell Spunky stench. At one point, we looked down and pee was leaking from her cage...... Do they make diapers for kitties?

Spunk smelled so bad from sitting in her cage and pee that we had to give her a bath. At first she hated it, but then I think she realized "Hey, if they give my a bath, then I won't have to lick all this pee off of myself." and then she just kind of sat in the tub and willingly let me give her a bath. We gave Ruthie a bath too because she smelled a little funny too. She too took the bath really well. Very proud mama. Oh man did they look like little rats though. SEE PICS ON THE KITTY ADVENTURE PAGE

We didn't have enough cat litter for all three cats so we had to take the bus back into town to get bags of litter. Trying to get multiple bags of cat litter home is a lot harder when you don't have a car. We took a carry on sized suitcase with us, but the litter was so heavy that we ended up screwing up on of the wheels... I'm sure the cobblestones didn't help either.

So that was our first night together in Germany as a family!