Hotel Living

Outside of the Vaihinger Hof

this part is the entrance to the restaurant and front desk...go through the 'tunnel' and you're in the outside dinning area - we've eaten there several nights.

We have been living the 'high life' in a hotel for 3 1/2 weeks now.  It has been long and drawn out, but so much shorter than many people moving here and the hotel 'suite' is much larger than the ones on base and other hotels, so I will not complain.  With such a 'large' family we get an entire 'suite' on the third floor, that I lovingly call the "Penthouse Suite".  Now, this 'suite' is not like any you have seen in the states.  We do have 3 rooms and 3 bathrooms and a hallway that we call our 'kitchen' (a old refrigerator that leaks and does not keep things too cold, a microwave we bought used, a table  that we have our food and appliances on.

one of the girls' rooms - notice G peeking? (and yes, T and I have twin beds too)

Our kitchen...sigh....

Since Germany doesn't get too hot, we do not have air conditioning at the hotel (most do not). So on those HOT days we had fans going and sweated up a storm while sleeping. Also, there are no elevators so
our prescense is known throughout our wing of the hotel when we leave or arrive as the stairs are old creaky wooden stairs and the stairwell echos BIG time. We have an amazing hotel manager, named Moosa.  He is an amazing help for all us Americans, translating for us, giving us local  info, just to name a few things he does for us.