Orders..........

It's official. We have orders and we will be moving very soon.

I will keep you all up to date.

Ansbach is our next destination. Well almost Ansbach.

Somewhere around that area.

Wish us luck, lots to do!

First day of school.

Can you see her little face?

A ball of nerves.

Walking.......

Bumble bee shirt and new Heeleys.

Sweety pie!

Can you believe I have a 2nd and 3rd grader? Time flies way to fast. I cant believe how much they have grown. I was just noticing today how tall they have gotten and then I have flashes of the future......teenagers, college and more. I realize that tomorrow they will be grown ups and living their own lives so, TODAY....... I have to enjoy them as much as I can. It is such an honor being their mother. I'm sad you guys dont get to see and talk to them everyday. They are such amazing little angels!!!!

Poor Parker looked so nervous as we left him in his line, while Sarriah was stoked to be back at school. They both came home happy and excited to be back.

Back to Cheb

We stopped at Mcdonalds for lunch.

The loot!

We did another girls trip to my fav shopping spot. CHEB. Laura, Teri, Kim, and I all shopped till our hearts were content. I thought I would post a few pics of my beautiful new purses. We had a good time, and it was fun having Laura get to know Teri and Kim.

Berlin and Dresden

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Trav and Laura in Dresden

Dessert

Yummy!

So much detail at every angle

This mural shows all the "fashion" throughout history.

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A mural at out hotels train stop.

Polar bear at the zoo. He was so active a really played with his audience.

Cathedral that was damaged in the war and never restored.

The Berlin TV tower.

Isnt she beautiflu?!

The bust of Nefertiti

Check Point Charlie

Sarriah at the Jewsis memorial

Parker at the jewish memorial

Trav and I in front of the reichstag

All of us at the Jewsih memorial

Kids at Check Point Charlie

Remains of Belin Wall

Jewish memorial

Brandenberg gate

Inside the reichstags glass dome

We spent a few hours at the Berlin Zoo. We loved it!

Schloss Sanssouci

Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

We caught all these bee's at lunch.

A beautiful square with 2 churches.

We took a flight through Ryan air to Berlin. 21st -27th. We enjoyed seeing the sights and all the history that is there. So much has happened there in the last 20yrs.

We saw all the sights you could imagine. Check point Charlie, Reichstag, whats left of the wall(we even brought home a small piece of it), the Jewish memorials, and Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Palace. We even went to visit one of Laura's Friends and go to a celebration for Uruguay's Independence day. We enjoyed Berlin very much. We took a very long train ride to Dresden to spend a day before we went back to Berlin to fly home. Dresden was beautiful. The architecture was amazing. It started to pour down rain around 4pm so our sight seeing was cut short. We had fortunately made it to 99.9% of everything we wanted to see. We just had to miss the new town. The long train ride was worth the trip. Dresden is a city I recommend to everyone. We loaded the train and then rushed to our plane. We are now home and kicking up our feet. We have walked and seen so much. I hope you enjoy the pics.

A funny little video. My daughter and her awesome imagination!

We saw so much more then I was able to post here. Sorry it took soooooo long.

A little late but worth the wait!

We celebrated our 9 year anniversary today. It actually happened on the 10th but since Trav was training and I was away on vacation, we did it today. We went out for a tasty dinner at Die Kartoffel. YUMMY!!!!!!! And now we are having an evening of Wii fit. He he! So YAY for nine years and here is to the next 9. I hope they are just as eventful and wonderful!

Rothenburg, Trier, more castles, and monkeys.

Just a few pics of some of the places we have taken Laura to. ENJOY!

Castle along the Rhine river

Cave under one of the castle ruins.

Castle along the Rhine.

Rothenburg

Castle ruin along Rhine.

Outside a castle ruin(Rhine)

Rothenburg.

I will post Trier pics here later...........

Its all Greek to me!

This whole blog does not have a ton of explanation. I will add more text later but to get it out to you ASAP. This is what you get. I will resend it out once I have finished. I hope this is ok for now.

We are home from our WONDERFUL vacation in Greece. We saw so much and did so much this blog is going to take awhile..... I am only going to put the best pics I took. I have 1500 to choose from so if you want to see them all I will have to send them to you.

We left on August 8th for Athens. After checking into our hotel (Adonis Hotel right in the Plaka) we walked the Plaka and the base of the Acropolis. We took a little train ride around town just to get a feel for the area, had dinner and settled in for the night.

Aug 9th we woke up EARLY and hiked up to the Acropolis archaeological site. To sum it up in one word...... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! This site goes all the way back to 580 B.C. Then we walked over to the Parliament and watched the changing of the guard at the unknown soldier memorial. Lunch in the Plaka. Next we went over to the Archaeological Museum. We visited the site of Zeus's temple. Then the Roman Agora, walked and shopped in the Plaka. Dinner...... KEBAB. Yummy!!!! We did a lot this day. We were tired, but no sleeping in for us.....

Change of the guard at the unknown soldier memorial.

Isn't he handsome?!

Roman agora

Aug 10th. Up early again. Loaded our boat the "Aquamarine" from Piraeus. We went swimming on board first thing, the water was flowing out of the pool due to high winds and choppy water. The kids almost flowed out with it. The pool water was ocean water.... nice and salty. Our first stop was the Island of Mykonos, we enjoyed our time here. We walked everywhere. All of the homes and buildings are white. The kids were were petting this cute little puppy who turned out to be a real snot! He tore their clothes. walking along the street we saw a huge pelican. We loaded the boat after dark and went to dinner. Then to SLEEP!!!!!

Aug 11th, Early morning. Kusadasi Turkey..... we took a guided tour of ancient Ephesus. Our guides name was George. Sarriah and Parker got to sit on a camel right outside the site. There was this weird guy outside that I think fell in love with Sarriah, he kept touching her. Uhg! After the tour we went to a Turkish carpet demo, these carpets are so beautiful, they are all done by hand. We walked the town and then headed back to our boat where we had lunch. Patmos was our second stop of the day. we went to the cave where John wrote the book of Revelations and visited the monastery around it. Note to self..... Taxi services on this island is CRAZY!!!!! We went to the beach but didnt stay long. The water was really cold! We had dinner(Country club casual) on the boat Parker slept through it. Off to our cabins to sleep!

Aug 12th Rhodes. Oh Rhodes. This was my Favorite island we visited. It was so beautiful. We took a guided tour to Lindos to see the town and its ruins. We took donkeys up to the top. I thought my poor donkey was going to die under my weight! Lindos ruins stand on top of Mt Philerimos. The views were incredible! We walked down the mountain. To save the poor donkeys backs. The bus took us back to the best preserved midevil city in the world. We walked the old ally ways and stopped in a few shops before heading to the BEACH. This beach was beautiful. The water in the mediteranian is the brightest blue, its so salty you literally have to try not to float..... and best of all no sharks or any other crazy life forms. after the beach we walked the old wall back to the boat where we got dressed for the Formal night (we were pretty much the only ones who dressed up!). Then again off to bed because we are so tired and have to be up EARLY again in the morning.

Aug 13th First stop of the day, Crete. We arrived early in the morning and loaded a bus to the Knossos ruins dating back to 2000 B.C. amazing to think they had running water going directly back to their homes way back then. After the tour we went to the city of Heraklion. We didnt see much here seeing how we were so excited to finally find an internet cafe. Again we loaded the boat and had lunch. Second stop of the day was Santorini. This is where they say the lost city of Atlanis was. We decided to take the tram up to the top and safe the donkeys. This city was beautiful. It sat right up at the top of the mountain over looking the sea on all sides. Again all the buildings were brilliant white. We had to wait in a huge line to get back down and were a little late getting back to our boat where we had dinner. Then to SLEEP. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

Tug boat pulling us out to sea.

Aug 14th Left our faithful cruise ship, went back to hotel Adonis, then took a 2hr bus ride to Cape Sounon where we saw the Temple of Posiedon you can see the ocean from every angle at the site. We took the bus to a near by beach, the water was really shallow so the kids and I could walk out forever, the water was very salty and I got a sunburn, the kids just tanned. We loaded the bus back to Athens. We had dinner in the Plaka.

Aug 15th, slept in till 7am. Took George's taxi service to Delphi ruins, went to the Delphi museum at site, had lunch (stuffed cabbage in lemon sauce ) in a pretty mountain town with incredible views. drove to St luke monastary. BEAUTIFUL!!! Drove back to Athens. Dinner in the Plaka. Kebab again. It never gets old. This day was great because it was a holiday and we got free entrance into everything!!! Greek's do it right..... kids are ALWAYS free.

My lunch. Stuffed cabbage (rice and seasoned hamburger) in lemon sauce. It was sooooooo good!

Parker and our tour guide. (George's cab comp.)

Aug 16th. Woke up at 5am, loaded our taxi and headed to the airport to come home. Good bye Greece!!!!!! Greece was beautiful even though the people were always friendly and we often walked up hill both ways in the blistering heat. This was probably my all time favorite vacation of all time. You just cant describe it in words. You just need to go and experience it all for your self!

This was just cute! Parker was worried about his teddy on our plane home so he buckled him in.