Moving Day and vet appts

Had a very long night with not nearly enough sleep. Chip slept at the foot of our bed and was up and down a lot. I even slept part of the night with my pillow down where my feet usually go so I could be closer to my sick dog. When morning finally came he seemed in better spirits and wanted to eat, but kept circling in tight circles to the right. Definetely not normal!

We had to meet at the house at 8 am to sign the final lease papers and go over all the details. After all that I had Eric go off with the interpreter to get all the utilities in our name while I took TJ back to the apt to be with Chip. The moment Eric walked in the door we were back out again with Chip on our way to the vet. This time there was a long line of people and dogs ahead of us. I ended up waiting with TJ and Chip in the car while Eric waited inside for our turn. We were so lucky that Marti, the Hungarian Boeing worker who organized our lake excursion last weekend happened to be at the vet helping a Swiss couple get a passport for their dog. Dr Attila's wife wasn't there today but Marti offered to stay and intpret for us. She was a Godsend! Dr Attila is pretty sure Chip had a stroke but we caught it very early and between the meds and the shots (2 more today) he seems to be doing much better now. One more appt tomorrow and hopefully the blood test will show something.

After finishing up there we went back to the apt to begin moving everything to the house. Almost everything - since the AC guys are going to the house tomorrow to install it in the upstairs we'll keep a few things at the apt and stay there one more night. Eric took two loads over by himself, such a sweet man, and came back the third time for us. We picked up some cleaning supplies and went into our Hungarian House as a family. It was so fun to let Chip and TJ out to explore while we cleaned shelves and put stuff away. Chip was too nervous to be out of my sight very long and ended up curling up on a pile of packing paper to keep an eye on me.

We finally got everything pretty much unpacked and put in the right rooms to the point we felt we could call it a night. Dropped Chip off at the apt, cleaned up and met the guys for dinner at a little restaurant with outside seating. TJ gets so excited when any of 'the guys' from the base hang out with us he gets a bit crazy as only a 6 yr old boy can - it about drove us nuts but the guys had had a few beers before we met up with them and were fine with our little energized bunny. TJ ordered a cheeseburger and it was the closest thing to an american one we have seen yet. He was very happy!

I'm so tired I find I can't even think of all the little things I wanted to write about. It's too bad too because the house doesn't have internet yet and by the time it does it could be almost 2 weeks from now. I will certainly forget much of what I wanted to put down if it takes that long. Maybe I'll write it out the old fashioned way - in a notebook! LOL Time for bed!