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.

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.