Hello Belgium!

Well yes we have arrived! After our 8 and a half hour flight we landed in beautiful Belgium. Both of my kiddos were rockstars, although Allie only slept for about 3 hours of the flight she did well. Jake slept for 7 and a half! Yahoo! I slept for 30 min. Go figure. It was definitely an easy trip over. We arrived at 8am in Belgium (which was 1am in chicago) Allie was more than confused. I just kept laughing cause she was totally a walking Zombie, but wanted to check everything out even though she was making no sense of herself. Our sponser couple met us at the airport and away we went to the Airforce Base. We arrived at about 10am to our hotel, which has been newly built and is very nice. Rob dropped the bags off and away he went to do some improssessing stuff. My goal was to keep Allie and Jake up till noon so they could get on some normal schedule so we decided to trek our way down to the playground outside the hotel. I was pleasently surprised when there were about 10 moms and 15 kids outside. The second I walked out there I was greated by 4 other moms introducing themselves. Allie was just excited to run around.. even with bloodshot eyes and a bit confused. For the next hour I got the low down of housing, base info, playgroups, etc. It was a perfect beginning to our new home here. I met a lot of great women who have kids around the same age as Allie. Come to find out they are actually a part of a church here and do Bible studies and play groups on tuesdays... so I'll definitely be looking into that! Noon quickly came and Allie was unraveling so we made our way up to our room. Rob came home and we all crashed. After a good long nap, by all except me, we took a walk over to the BX on base (which is like a little walmart), walked the isles and came back to the hotel cause a woman was bringing by dinner for us. A lady showed up around 6pm with a great pasta dish and salad. I am continually amazed at the military family and how great they are at making people feel welcome and have an easy transition. Our sponser couple has been incredibly helpful in making this an easy transition and now a great dinner to add to it! Allie was pumped to have "noodles" for dinner. Dinner, Bath and bed. Jake crashed at 7.. Allie and I at 8. Rob at 9.... At 10:00pm I woke right up thinking it was for sure 10am. You see I quickly found that it does not get dark here till about 11pm. Rob and I hopped out of bed thinking we were late for a meeting... Oops only 10 at night. Ugh. So confused. Jake woke up about 10:30 wide eyed and smiling. So now I'm here in the computer room at 11:30pm wide awake with Jake... while rob and allie are quietly dreaming up in our room. This may be a long couple days.... But all in all its been a great beginning to our new chapter here. Everyone seems incredibly nice and so helpful. I'm excited to venture out tomorrow to see the towns around here to figure out where we'll want to live. The land here is gorgeous. Thanks for the prayers they were felt as our flight was as easy as can be. Please pray as Jake and I try to get our bodies on schedule here and as we go through the housing process.. I guess the base here makes life very difficult for you to find housing.. it is different than any other base.. weird. I'll try to keep this blog updated and take some photos soon.