Day 1 in Germany

We made it! We are staying in a hotel on Vogelweh (another base), which is about 5 minutes from Ramstein. Yesterday was weird, fun, tiring, etc. We were picked up from the airport by our friends, Matt & Christina. It was fun to see them again. People from Jer's work were also there. We ran quite a few errands!
The bases here have scanners at all the gates. Everyone in the car has to show military ID to get on base. When they scan your card, a pic of you shows up. So, we had to get registered so their scan gun wouldn't beep every time we go through the gate and in the meantime, we carry a slip of paper saying we were registered until their system catches up. It worked last night on Ramstein, but apparently Vogelweh is a little behind because 5 minutes later, coming through the gate here, it beeped.
Jeremiah got his temporary license yesterday. Thankfully he'd already taken the test at Langley AFB, so he just had to watch a (extremely boring, and too long after an overnight transcontinental flight) video. They mail his permanent license to him. That brings me to some more bad luck news for us: Jer found the truck title intended for Todd. I guess we are smarter and dumber than we thought: it was with the paperwork all along, hidden. But our car registration is not, and we can't pick our car up without it. SIGH. The things we wish we knew AHEAD of time! We drove past the lot. There's our car! Today is a down day (for no reason other than they like to do that around here). So, we can't pick up the car until Monday anyway. Now we have to try to figure out getting the registration faxed from VA or something. I'm not really optimistic because you all know how smart DMV people are. Now mix that with people from VA, and you have some confused people!
We took a nap (and slept really hard!) after all that was done. Then Matt & Christina called--thankfully waking us up so we can try to adjust to the schedule. They picked us up from the hotel and we went out to eat.
We went to a quaint town called __________ *(I will soon figure out where we are!). We ate at an Italian restaurant off base. Oh, the food was wonderful! The Germans know how to cook Italian! I was nervous, but I decided to get over myself and try out my German. I did fine, but she spoke back, and I didn't know what was going on! We had apple strussel for dessert, which IS a German food. It was also very delicious.
I wish I could post pictures, but for now I'm on a public computer, so you'll have to wait. Sorry!
Day 1 in Germany was eventful and tiring. This is definitely going to be an adventure!

* The town is called Landstuhl.