February '08 Travels!
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Travelin’ Fools!
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Okay, for those of you who read our Myspace blog, you've probably already read this...for everyone else, read on!
I thought I’d quickly blog @ all the many places we’ve been in the past few weeks. Mama mia – we have been on the ROAD! In late January, Christian’s parents got here (woohoo!!! Free-babysitting service and a little taste of Texas!) and Christian’s leave (vacation) started, so we all took off. First on the list was a trip to Rome. Christian and I had been there on our honeymoon, but for Nana & PopPop it was a new adventure. I so so so love Italy, so I was wayyyyyyyyy excited about the trip. We got cheap flights via Ryanair, got a great apartment in the heart of Rome, and we saw some fun sights… The Coliseum, the Roman Forum, the Vatican (complete with Sistine Chapel) and of course Lena Sr. and I hit up Rome’s finest flea market. While walking around in Vatican City we actually ran into Christian’s company commander and his wife – too funny.
After Rome, we took a few days off, then Christian and I headed to Holland for an alone trip. Nice…. Holland (the Netherlands) was beautiful. We’ve concluded that it’s the land of greenhouses, bicycles and ponies! There were stinkin’ ponies on every corner. I’m still trying to figure that out… Anyway, the whole point of going to Holland was to hit the Cuijk flea market (poor Christian – but he was a good sport!). We found some incredible furniture there, but with the stupid stupid Euro, it was still just too high. Oh – and on our night in Holland guess what we had for dinner? Chinese food! Now we can say that we’ve had Chinese food in Germany, Luxembourg, France and now Holland! On the way back from Holland, we stopped in Koln (Cologne) and saw the monster size cathedral there. It was massive like all the other cathedrals here. I overheard a tour guide saying that if they built these type of cathedrals now with modern-day tools, it would still take over 90 years to complete just one of them. That’s a lot of work…
Okay, so after Rome and Holland, we did a day trip to Metz, France (my personal frenchy-favorite). And yes, we did hit an antiques place while we were there…On Thursday we had to say good-bye to Nana & PopPop… and then got on the road to Switzerland! Brenda (from college) is still there and we still love to shop together, and our kids love to play together. So on Friday, Christian baby-sat (isn’t he incredible!?) while Brenda and I took a train into Zurich for serious shopping. Fun, fun! And yes, I will admit once again, that on the way out of Switzerland we stopped at an antiques place…do I need an intervention?
Now we are back home in tiny, rural (super rural) Rohrbach. It was great fun to get out for a while. The winters here are not my thing. My toes are aching to be in flipflops again! That’s it for now….sorry if it was too wordy….details, details…
Blessings to each of you and chat with you soon!
-diceydo and family too
I thought I’d quickly blog @ all the many places we’ve been in the past few weeks. Mama mia – we have been on the ROAD! In late January, Christian’s parents got here (woohoo!!! Free-babysitting service and a little taste of Texas!) and Christian’s leave (vacation) started, so we all took off. First on the list was a trip to Rome. Christian and I had been there on our honeymoon, but for Nana & PopPop it was a new adventure. I so so so love Italy, so I was wayyyyyyyyy excited about the trip. We got cheap flights via Ryanair, got a great apartment in the heart of Rome, and we saw some fun sights… The Coliseum, the Roman Forum, the Vatican (complete with Sistine Chapel) and of course Lena Sr. and I hit up Rome’s finest flea market. While walking around in Vatican City we actually ran into Christian’s company commander and his wife – too funny.
After Rome, we took a few days off, then Christian and I headed to Holland for an alone trip. Nice…. Holland (the Netherlands) was beautiful. We’ve concluded that it’s the land of greenhouses, bicycles and ponies! There were stinkin’ ponies on every corner. I’m still trying to figure that out… Anyway, the whole point of going to Holland was to hit the Cuijk flea market (poor Christian – but he was a good sport!). We found some incredible furniture there, but with the stupid stupid Euro, it was still just too high. Oh – and on our night in Holland guess what we had for dinner? Chinese food! Now we can say that we’ve had Chinese food in Germany, Luxembourg, France and now Holland! On the way back from Holland, we stopped in Koln (Cologne) and saw the monster size cathedral there. It was massive like all the other cathedrals here. I overheard a tour guide saying that if they built these type of cathedrals now with modern-day tools, it would still take over 90 years to complete just one of them. That’s a lot of work…
Okay, so after Rome and Holland, we did a day trip to Metz, France (my personal frenchy-favorite). And yes, we did hit an antiques place while we were there…On Thursday we had to say good-bye to Nana & PopPop… and then got on the road to Switzerland! Brenda (from college) is still there and we still love to shop together, and our kids love to play together. So on Friday, Christian baby-sat (isn’t he incredible!?) while Brenda and I took a train into Zurich for serious shopping. Fun, fun! And yes, I will admit once again, that on the way out of Switzerland we stopped at an antiques place…do I need an intervention?
Now we are back home in tiny, rural (super rural) Rohrbach. It was great fun to get out for a while. The winters here are not my thing. My toes are aching to be in flipflops again! That’s it for now….sorry if it was too wordy….details, details…
Blessings to each of you and chat with you soon!
-diceydo and family too
Note about Mr. Rowdy
2/06/2008 09:49:00 PM Edit This 1 Comment »
Sorry that the video below is side-ways! My techie-husband is at "soldier school" right now (that's what Lena calls it!) and I have no idea how to turn the thing right-side up. Oh well... The important part is that you can see WHAT Rowdy is doing! Woohoo! Go Rowdy!
