Exciting Tuesdays!

As far as days go, Tuesday was very exciting for me. I took my first bus ride and my first train ride and finally had someone look at my passport! We had to return the rental car to the airport Tuesday morning so we start out, make it to the Basel, Mulhouse, Frieburg Airport, also known as Europort and go to return the car. Unfortunately we tried to return it to the Mulhouse side of the airport, the French side, and are told we cannot return the car to the Avis on the French side since we rented it from the Avis on the Basel, Switzerland Side. I could literally see the other side of the airport from where I was standing so lets say about 3 city blocks to the other end of the airport. We had to get back in the car, on to the highway, drive through customs and drive a little further then finally exit back to the airport and make out way to the Avis on that side. Blah! That took too much time. After we had to take a bus to Basel so we could catch a train to go back to Belfort. It was very exciting with a lot of pretty scenery. As we were crossing from Switzerland into France, the custom officers came by to check our passports and they asked where we are traveling to and me, all excited, said to France! Soner quickly stepped in and said Belfort. Ha if we were in the United States and I had said that when I am obviously heading that way and it is the only place for me to go then the other person would have thought I was being sarcastic and would not have been too happy with me. I wonder what the French officers thought...

I also made my first meal in the apartment. We have 2 forks and 2 knives, some steak knives, three plates I bought at Ikea, one cookie sheet, 5 small tupperware-like containers and a microwave and stove. I made a lovely meal with a starter of chips and homemade salsa (tomatoes, onions and hot peppers) then for the dinner we had...tomatoes, onions and hot peppers grilled in the oven. Oh and some bread and some microwavable shrimp but they didn't turn out so great. It was a very exciting day in our household!