We have arrived!

Just this morning. Need to rest. All is well. More later ...

... to follow up. We arrived in Hamburg late Sunday night and collected all our luggage together, 15 bags in total, and made it out to the Kielius bus just in time to buy tickets. I had to run back and forth to get the luggage stowed in the bottom of the bus, the driver was very surprised at how much we had and asked "Alles?" with a laugh. When we arrived in Kiel we carried everything over to the train station as fast as possible and bought tickets but just missed by minutes the last train out of the station at 11:44 pm. The next one was at 4:44 am so we spent the night in the train station. The kids were wired and ran all over the place. At one point I took them for a walk to show them the ships in the fjord. A nice man that works in the station helped us carry our bags onto the train. At the stop in Ploen we threw everything off as fast as we could before the doors closed. The kids made it off as well! V stayed at the station and guarded the bags while I took the first load with the kids to the apartment; I left the kids there to pick out rooms and V and I carried the last of the bags to the apartment, stored them in our storage room in the basement, and collapsed after we got in.

The last few days have been very busy. I have been building lots of IKEA furniture while at the apartment and getting starting again at work. The kids have been up at odd times so we haven't been able to get much sleep, but things are starting to adjust now.