You know you are an American Military Family Living in Germany if…

• Ausfahrt isn’t funny anymore, and roundabouts are second nature.
• You appreciate when the car behind you or next to you gives you half an inch of space.
• Two hours for dinner is “fast food.”
• Jumping across the border to get away for the day is no big deal.
• You no longer need Google Translate at the grocery store.
• You forgot how to use round doorknobs.
• You forget how to flush a toilet that doesn’t have a push button… or two.
• Even 100 MPH seems like you’re driving really, really slow.
• Even at home, you don’t put ice in your drinks.
• You never leave home without your keys, ID card, license and passport.
• You think anything with chocolate sounds like a good breakfast.
• You answer the phone “Hallo” instead of “Hello”.
• You need a power drill and sledgehammer to hang a picture on the wall.
• You think it’s weird to eat French Fries without a fork.
• Christmas is incomplete without a Christmas Market by a castle.
• You sing “Tschuss” instead of say “Good-Bye”.
• You no longer say “Please” or “Thank-you” – it’s “Bitte” and “Danke”
• You wonder how you ever lived without Rolladens.
• You wear a scarf every single day… even in the summer.
• You plan your route around ESSO locations.

These were written in Ryan’s Heidelberg High School Year Book and we thought they were pretty funny.  I just had to jot them down to remember all these little things about living here.  If fact, I’m getting a little teary eyed just posting this.  Not quite ready to leave.   I definitely left my heart in Heidelberg.