Hello!

Hey everyone its Kara this time! Italy is treating us great. We moved into our new place on Monday. The place is so empty! We are borrowing some furniture from the military till we get our stuff. We have a bed, some end tables, a couch, table and chairs and a coffee table. We also got our fridge, stove and wardrobes that we get to keep till we move. It’s weird in Italy they don’t have closets, so the military provided us with some wardrobes. They are huge! We did get our unaccompanied baggage, which included some blankets, pots, pans, dishes, towels and our TV and PS3! It’s so nice to have a TV to entertain me while Harris is at work.

Oh and we found a McDonalds! There is only one in the area. It was kind of expensive. And you had to pay separately for ketchup, which tasted like tomato paste. But we can now say we’ve had Italian McDonalds. Oh and they had shrimp on the menu, that was weird for me.

So we are doing really great. We’ve been able to get around the area without getting too lost. We even went out for dinner the other day without our friends help. I guess it helped that the owner of the resteraunt we went to lived in America for a few years and speaks fluent english, but we went out by ourselves and we found the place! Oh and we even went to a super market store. It’s about the closest thing to a walmart neighborhood market that we’ve seen. There was all sorts of food and household items like light bulbs and teddy bears.

So people that know I can’t cook would be proud. Harris and I made some amazing hamburger helper last night. It was so good Harris even had leftovers for lunch today. I was really proud of us.

So Harris brought home some news today when he got off work. He’s going TDY. He leaves April 13th for 3 weeks, he’ll be at Sheppard AFB, Texas for inspector school. We’ve only been here for a few weeks and already the Air force is sending him away. But it’s ok, he’ll only be gone for 3 weeks. It could be worse.

Well I think I ran out of things to say, I’ll leave you with some pictures. I don’t want you guys to forget what we look like so there are some that include us in them!

Ciao!

Kara and Harris Hamburg

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What our fridge is telling us thanks to the magnets I got in the spouses meeting.


This is us in our curtain-less bathtub


The HUGE wardrobes. they are really big, and we got 3 of them.


The bed. it looks nicer now that we got blankets:)


This is the view we have outside the window by the stairs.


This is another view of our entry room.


The stove and Fridge

Our living room:)


McDonalds :)


Just Harris and me hanging out


This was on the Benvenuti tour


This was also on the Benvenuti tour

View the Tour Video at http://www.aviano.af.mil/library/videonewsreports/index.asp and click on the Benvenuti Program