Big Steps....

We have our car - yeah! I need to take a picture tomorrow and post. It is a black (NOT "Smith Silver" :)) VW Tiguan. We LOVE it and we are already thinking "too bad we can't bring this back with us" We'll be checking that out for sure when the time comes, but we have heard it is pricey and not worth it.

I haven't actually driven the car yet!?! We got it late Friday and then today did a lot of driving around town but Eric drove. Between the trams, buses, pedestrians, street signs we can't read, not having driven a car in 9 weeks, and stick shift (which we haven't driven in a few years) it is nerve racking starting to drive here. I'm sure it will get better fast!

We drove a few miles North of here to Grinzing area and grabbed some dinner Friday night. It is a beautiful 'village' with lots of Heurigans...which are like wine houses...homemade wine and food.

This am, Evan got to play a soccer game so that was fun. It was a 'friendly' as they call them here. We then headed to this huge shopping area called Shopping City Sud (South)...to hit the IKEA for a few more items we needed now that we have our stuff. This place is CRAZY-- I think it is the largest 'mall' in Europe. Geez Louise... not fun to go on a Saturday.

After some park time and dinner time, we put together a dresser and watched some college football! This was the other huge item we got yesterday. Thanks to my awesome brother, we are now slingers with Mike and Vic! I said slingers, not swingers!

We wanted access to some US TV ...especially for sports and a few other fun shows. So... we bought a slingbox and had it shipped to Mike and Vic. He hooks it up to his extra TV (and he hooked up another DVR for us to that TV) and then we can watch his TV through the internet. Isn't that cool!!!! The kids and I loved to watch Survivor last season together, so we watched it tonight...so fun!

Still unpacking... I'm going to hit it further before I go to sleep!

Happy Weekend!