Our castle.

A few photos of our new house.

Our Beer cellar...... we will use it for motorcycle storage.

from the back

The side yard

Our street

The house!

More photos to come.........

Wine fest in Bad Durkheim

Ahhhhhhhhh. They won a game and got new teeth.

Tatter's and sour krout. Pretty good.

Dumpfelnudle(I'm sure that is spelled very wrong)

End of first trip.
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2nd Trip

Kim, Jamey, and I.

Trav and Sean

We went twice this year. Once with Laura and the kids and once with Kim and Sean. Our 2 great friends who we miss dearly.......

The fest's here are so much fun. The second time we went it was to EAT. Yum!!!! The best food is always at the fest's!

Amsterdam, Bruges, brussels.

Back to Amsterdam and I have to say I enjoyed it just as much this time as I did the first time!



Oh the things you can find in Amsterdam.......

Yes this is a urinal..... yes it is outside, and yes everyone uses them.

Do you see how crooked the houses are?!

Its a fun relaxing place to go. Its not that there is alot to do and see here, its just fun to be there and be a part of the city.

I had never heard of Bruges until Laura planned a trip there. I love Europe for this reason..... everycity is filled with beauty and everycity is different. Bruges was a beautiful city with great stuff to see and wonderful Chocolate to eat! Yummy. I'm so happy you do your research Laura. I would have hated to miss Bruges.

The main square

This is a michelangelo piece. Modona and child.


Pictures dont do it justice.


This was a very active swan. Watch out.... he bites!!!!




The clock tower.

Brussels is a BIG city! Our hotel was in perfect walking distance to see all the sites.

Its the capital of Belgium, and the home of the European Union. We saw as much as we could but after we got home and I really researched it, I would like to go back and hit the things we missed. We didnt have a lot of time to spend here.

Cathedral Saint Michel

Snails!!!!! YUMMY!

Manneken Pis

Grand Place

Wonderful, beautiful places!!!!!!

Painting and moving.

Trav, Laura, and I had the task of painting this apartment back to white. Thank goodness Laura was here...... She was a huge help(and she also had very fashionable attire)! It took a few coats on a few walls but we really got it done pretty quick. Good bye strips!!!

Movers....... Almost died when they saw how much stuff we had.

Cleaning............ wasnt to bad, we had a pretty relaxed inspector. YAY!

Leaving Mannheim............. We left pretty quick so I didnt have to cry. We loved Mannheim, it was good to us but like all military families we are moving on and not looking back.

Entering Ansbach.............. The city itself is beautiful. We are not missing much in the way of shopping etc. The post however. Yes it truely does SUCK!!!!! I'm so happy I dont live on it.