Well, I still am not able to post any pictures as this time.  You may just have to wait until we have a new apartment and are all moved in and set up with internet. If I get time in the next few days I will take my tablet out with me and try to get a better signal.  I am finding it hard to find wifi here , even in busy areas, without a password.  In other news things that have been happening with us.  We are registered and in the process of setting up a bank account, as well as apartment hunting. I had no idea it would be difficult to find an apartment. We saw a really nice one today and are looking at 2 tomorrow and 1 on Saturday.  The hard part is that its not just you looking at the place. When we were at the apartment today in a time span of 1 hour there were two other couples looking at it . Who knows how many others were there today. How it works is, you fill out a form and the landlord decides who he best sees fit for the apartment.  I hope one of the 4 places finds us fit or we are going to have to do a lot of apartment searching.  We did really like the place we looked at today.  We were told by a gentleman who has been helping us , to go ahead and tell each place we are interested. That way we get our form and interest in. If we find and get a better place we can just tell them we changed our mind.  So we will see how it goes over the next few days.  In Ivy news, she is enjoying her daily outings and loves all the new sights.  The other afternoon on our walk back to the apartment, Ivy got crapped on by a pigeon.  Poor girl didn't know what hit her.  luckily it just hit the top of her head and not her face as she was snacking on a cracker at the time.  I didn't have my camera on hand or I would have taken  a pic.   The weather is nice here.  Its the rainy season so one day may be sunny and 2 may be rainy but we are enjoying the mild temps and the rain. We really didn't see much rain in CO so its a nice change. Ask me again after I have been living here for a while to see if I still feel the same about the rain.  I really am sad I can't post pics.  I really do hope to get it all worked out in the future.  We are slowly getting through the language barrier.  I should be studying right now instead of posting but I can work twice as hard tomorrow.  I may make some note cards tonight.  The food is delish.  I love the dumplings.  I need to find out how to make them or for now a sauce to make for them.  You can buy the dough and just make them into dumpling balls .  We currently don't have an oven so something like that would be easy I would think.  For now we have been indulging in brats(wurst), pasta, meats(Fleisch), cheese(käse) , bread (brot), and pickles.  The cheese is fabulous and the chocolate (schokolade) , wine(wien), and beer(bier) is delectable as well.  The problem is the wine and beer its so cheap here.  I think we will have to have 1 glass a night.  Not sure that is a problem, but we do enjoy it right now.  Ok well its getting late and I either need to read or make note cards.  I am not going to learn the language surfing the web.  Guten Abend  ( Good night)!!!