Thursday, November 4, 2010

Big Brother

A few years ago (ahem more like 12) our family had a foreign exchange student from Germany.
Peter became a big brother to me and so after about 9 years of not seeing him, it was awesome to spend the day with him!

We started our day at the Mercedes- Benz museum which ended up being a lot more interesting than we previously had thought :)






How sweet is that car? and the truck pullin' it along

Peter's dream car


The Wings


The Pope Mobile


 Yay for big brothers :) and husbands...



We ended our night in the cute little town of Aalen and then headed to Dewangen to Peter's house and it was so nice to just hang out and relax.

It was so much fun to see Peter and I can't wait until we meet again!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ludwigsburg


On sunday, we went to Ludwigsburg. It's the same place we hit up the pumpkin festival and where we got our ginormous pumpkin.

We then took a little tour of the castle, that started out at as a hunting "cabin" basically a palace 3 times the size of my parents house... but ya know, it's all relative.





The Throne and the last King/Duke that lived in the castle. He was quite large.
2 m11cm and 200 kg.
That would be 6.9 feet and 440 pounds.

His wife was 5.9 feet and was 330 pounds.

They called it the marriage of the elephants. cute.


The color of the curtains used to be the bright blue/teal underneath.



This theater is still in use during the summer months.

The room of mirrors... on the ceiling, all walls... everywhere. That's a little too much mirrorage if you ask me.


Garden view. So gorgeous outside.


I'm sorry... but who was fitting in this little guy?


Then we hit up fairytale land!! This was so cool, you walked out to the little seat and then it rose up and the fountains came on! I wanted a turn, but Jon said no.


Hansel and Gretel.



Katja with the baby prams


The ride we went on. It made you "feel" like you were spinning upside down when in reality the whole floor and room spun around you... trippy.




I got a gold chocolate coin... and it was AWESOME.


Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair~

All the kids had to yell this in order for the hair to come down... only problem is, it didn't come all the way down! One little girl was arguing with her dad about it... so stinkin' cute!


Such a fun day! 
I was thinking of my nieces and nephews the whole time, knowing they would've had a blast!

Oh... and how is it Nov. 2nd already!? Where did the last month go???

Monday, November 1, 2010

Pumpkin Time in Germany!


This past Saturday we arrived in Urbach, Germany. A town that celebrated it's 800th birthday in 1980... no big deal. Fortunately my family has stayed connected with family still in Europe so we get to spend the week with them! It's been such a blessing and we've loved having the down time.

We started Sunday morning with a HUGE breakfast before we headed out for an awesome day.

Rosie made this delish pastry for the morning!


Ummmm... hello fantastic breakfast!


After breakfast we made or way to Ludwigsburg


Ashley was gracious enough to snap a pict of the fam!

L-R: Jon, Me, Katja, Rosie, Henry, and Katja's husband Franck

There just so happened to be a pumpkin festival going on as well!!!
Sign. me. up.



These were the biggest pumpkins, the largest was 668 kg... MASSIVE.


There was a fun little tropical theme going on


Yes, all made of pumpkins.












And there's the octopus waving goodbye :)

So... I've noticed that I've lost a few followers.. no big deal. Buuuut I'm sorry to those that may be getting sick of all the traveling pictures.
This blog is basically serving as a photo journal for Jon and I, since I'm not so good with the pen and paper.

I promise in 3 weeks we will return to our regularly scheduled programming :)

Happy November!!