Kindred Konnection

I loved reading our family newsletter. What a nice taste of home. It's so nice to hear from everyone at the same time. Thanks for organizing it Amy.
Well, we now have a place to call home! We spent our first night in our new house last night and all went well. It was a little cold because the heaters won't be worked on for a couple of weeks from now. It's not too cold outside (yet) but the homes don't warm up from the sun, during the winter. They are made with concrete walls and ceilings, not wood and insulation. The floors are all freezing cold marble! I feel like we are in a museum with the marble floors and the few pieces of rental furniture in each room. We'll definately have to buy some rugs and slippers but socks (and shoes) will have to work for now. The military delivered rental beds, tables, chairs and couches for us to use until our own furniture arrives (in a month). It has five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms a big living room/dining room with a fire place and lots of built in shelves. We have a glass wall/door, enclosed patio that is practicaly begging for a hot tub for Travis, plus a lovely, tiled, courtyard patio too. It should work out very well for us while we are living here.
Travis is enjoying some vacation days this week so we can settle into our house and tour around southern Spain a bit. We've had a great time touring a couple of Spanish cities within 1-2 hours from our house. Yesterday, we were thrilled and amazed at the reality of how we spent the day. We took our passports, crossed the border and spent the day in Gibralter! It was wonderful! We spent about two hours touring the "The Rock of Gibralter" inside and outside. We took a private guided tour to drive around and up the top of the Rock and had several stops along the way to tour caves, mines and visit the local, wild, free range apes. We have some great photos of it all so I'll post them after I have full access a internet from home. (I'm still having to drive into the base to use the cyber cafes) Tomorrow we're planning another day trip and will probably head to Sevilla. Then on Monday, Travis will start working (and taking his first patients as an FNP!) and I'll try to normalize our routine and days with the children.