5 Things...

After about 11 hours of travel, Alex and I landed safe and sound (along with our 9 checked bags, miraculously) in Luxembourg yesterday morning.  Here's a picture of Alex with the embarassing display. 

   

It has already been a very eventful day and a half and I thought I'd share a few lessons we've already learned.  Here's the official list...


5 things we've learned in Luxembourg in 24 hours:


1.  HAIR GEL IS UNIVERSAL (UNFORTUNATELY) BUT VINEYARD VINES AND LILLY PULITZER ARE NOT.  I think our clothes are going to give us away, folks.


2.  ALWAYS CHECK TO MAKE SURE BOTH KEYS OPEN YOUR DOOR WHEN GIVEN TWO TO YOUR NEW APARTMENT (especially when you don't yet have a phone, a language or a single friend).  Alex and I were locked out of our apartment yesterday for quite some time but the bartender at the restaurant below our flat allowed us to use his phone to call our relocation consultant (thank goodness I had her card in my purse) who called building management to come let us in.  I'm sure no one was inconvenienced in the process ;-)


3.  EVERYONE DOES *NOT* SPEAK ENGLISH IN LUXEMBOURG.  Even our new French tutor just emailed us... in French.  Does that seem a little funny to anyone else?  I'm thinking that if we could have read it, we wouldn't need her.


4.  iPHONES COST $1,000 IN LUXEMBOURG.  Luckily, I didn't learn this the hard way (and we got ours for a fraction of the price for a 2 year contract) but I've been informed that I've only got one shot at this.


5.  BUS DRIVERS ARE NOT LENIENT WHEN YOU DRIVE THE WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREET.  I never though about the fact that street signs would be different here but if there's one I should learn, its the "one way / do not enter" one.  Don't worry, Mr. Bus Driver stoped before he hit us but he made it pretty clear that he wasn't happy about it :)


Hopefully, we've learned our important lessons for the day.  Tomorrow, I'll send photos or our apartment and even a video (if we can figure out how :)


Love until next time...Melanie