Adjustment - Harder Than It Sounds

4:02 PM Amanda Greathouse 0 Comments

Well we've been in Germany now for 10 days! Crazy!

We're still living in our pet-friendly hotel, out of our suitcases still I might add. We have a handful of things to eat & mostly rely on grabbing food on the go at the Base Exchange - the giant mall! We're both just ready to be on something that resembles a normal schedule!

We've been house hunting like maniacs recently. It's been stressful because we want a house - a small one - with some sort of yard for the dogs. We looked at a few houses over the last few days & German houses are so much different than American houses. They are huge, old, don't have carpet, no closets, sit so close to the neighbors' houses that I bet they can see inside & usually have no yard! I knew most of these things were different going into the hunt, but it's so much different once you actually see the houses & the differences in person!

We have to be out of this temporary lodging on the 20th or so & have desperately been searching! After a discouraging visit to the housing office - where they basically said our personal preferences don't matter at all - we found a house we reeeally like! It's a little house with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, some balconies & a little yard in a cute little village! The landlords were very nice to us! They took us back to their home, offered us drinks & went over the rental contract with us! Soo nice! We have to take the rental agreement to the housing office on Monday & hope everything goes smoothly! If so, we have a house! :)

I will post pictures after the house is complete - they're fixing some stuff up from after the previous tenants & bringing things, like the electricity, up to speed! So excited now!

Well tonight is a pretty slow Friday night! No plans but to just chill after an exhausting week of house hunting! Tomorrow we hope to have some plans to see Germany! :)

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Willkommen in Deutschland

9:22 AM Amanda Greathouse 0 Comments

Welcome to Germany!

We've been here for a couple of days now & we're still getting used to everything!

There was a little more to our airport adventures - we got stuck at the cargo facility in Baltimore for about 2 1/2 hours! Fun, right? Not so much. We caught a cab there to pick up the dogs, but when we arrived, it was going to be about a 15 min. wait for them to transport them inside of the cargo holding & unload them. The cab driver did not want to wait that long for us, so we paid him so he could leave. That wouldn't have been a problem if there were any taxis that would pick people up in that damn city! After 45 min. of trying to find a company that could pick us up, Greg was told a driver would be there in 30-40 min. Well wrong... 40 min. later he called to check up on it & the lady never sent anyone! We called like every 10 min. after that to make sure the driver she said she was sending was actually coming! Once the guy finally came, he was super nice & think the cargo people were really happy for us to finally have someone pick us up!

The rest of the time in the airport went smoothly! We kept the dogs until 30 min. before we had to be at the terminal for boarding & they did soooo well in the airport!

The airplane was huge - I'm talking double decker, had to be like 60 rows on just the first level with 10 seats per row! Holy moly! There were some in-flight movies, but we basically slept the whole time or watched our own movies that we brought.

We had one hell of a greeting at the airport in Ramstein. Greg's sponsor/supervisor came & brought tons of guys from the squadron with him to help & greet us! The key spouse came as well to greet me, which was awesome! It was nice to have so many people there to help when we got off the plane in a foreign country.

Germany is a nice place! So clean & beautiful & so far everyone is friendly, granted those we've encountered have been US military! Ha The commissary was a little confusing, with some food being labeled in German but we found enough food that we are familiar with. The BX is huuuge! It's like a mall & has everything you can think of inside of it! There was clothes, sporting goods, furniture, electronics, little German shops, Cinnabon [yummm], car sales places & so much more! Greg even found the Vera Bradley section & was so happy to show me! He knows me too well! :)

We're staying in temporary lodging right now. It's basically a furnished apartment with almost everything we need to live here. We'll be here until we're able to find a house off base to live on! Greg got his housing brief today & has all kinds of info to help us find a place to live.

Here are some pics of where we're living at the moment & a little bit of the surrounding area. We don't have a car or anyway to get around, other than walking, so I haven't taken all too many pictures yet. But enjoy these for now!

Living room

Kitchen & a little of the dining room table

Front bathroom

Master bedroom

Master bathroom

Gaia chillin on the back deck

Checking out the scenery

The dog park thats right in our backyard

Street in front of our temp. house

They love looking out the windows

Glass bottle of Coke from lunch today

Hope you've enjoyed the pics so far! I plan to take more as soon as I can! :)

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Army Wives Adventures

6:17 PM Amanda Greathouse 0 Comments

As some may know, I figured out how to sign up in the Army Wives Extras database & worked as an extra for them on a few episodes! 1, 2, 9 & 11 to be exact! Ha

Here are some pics from set that I have taken!

Me as an Army nurse episodes 1 & 2

Me as an Army Wife with my friend Thai as a soldier

The main characters between takes! Notice my blonde

self right behind them!

As mentioned a few posts ago, we had family come to visit recently! My sister & sis-in-law love the show tons like me & we recently got my mom hooked as well [Welcome to the dark side! haha]! Since the show is filmed in Charleston, we thought it would be fun to go on a hunt to find the places where the show is filmed! Most of the scenes are indoor sets, but the outside places are real around town!

We were able to find the residences of the Sherwoods & Holdens, the Administration Building and the Hump Bar. I know that the Burtons' house is in the same neighborhood, but it was raining cats & dogs when we went on this adventure & it complicated driving around this very old neighborhood with small roads!

The Sherwoods' House

Front door of the Sherwood's house

Front porch at the Holdens' House!

The Hump Bar!

Terra & I at the Hump Bar

Terra, Mom & I at the Hump Bar

The Season 6 Premier was last weekend! I loved watching it with everyone & trying to find me in the scenes! I went through again later on & took some screen shots where you can clearly see me! I was in more scenes, but it was so much in the background or so quick I couldn't get good pictures!

In blue scrubs behind the cast doing nursey things

This one was difficult to get a clear pic of because of the blinds on the window -

but I am the blonde Army Nurse who walked Claudia Joy into this room

I am the army nurse in the background coming down

the stairs behind Trevor & Pamela

Checking on a patient while Tonya & Denise do their thing

There are a few more pics that exist out there that I'm waiting to surface so I can get my hands on them! I will add more once they come my way! But I hope you enjoyed looking through the pics chronicling my time working as an extra on Army Wives!