The first day of school is always exciting the girls were excited and very nervous to be going to a new school. Because we live off post the girls go to Hainerberg Elementry school on post. Bella started the second grade and her teacher is Miss Dolit. Abby started First grade and her teacher is Mrs. Hoehn. Rick and I drove them in and walked them to their new classes. They had a great first day. When I picked them up Abby had a Schuluete a cone filled with treats. It is a German custom for the first day of school. The German school system starts at 1st grade so all the first graders got one. Abby was excited to get home and see what was in it. Since I am updating this blog I will tell you that both girls love their teachers and are doing very well and they have made lots of new friends.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Freizeitpark Lockmuhle
The Lockmuhle is a little amusement park. It had a lot of rides that you had to work yourself. The weather was perfect. The girls had a great time riding the rides and beating me at mini golf. Going here was their reward for being good at the Roman ruins. We will defiantly go here again it was a very fun day.
Roman Ruins Bad Homburg
In September we went to these great Roman Ruins. It was very impressive. The original part of the fort was built in AD 90. It was very spacious and the girls enjoyed running around the grounds and climbing the steps to the sentry post they marched back an forth like Roman soldiers would have.They had a fabulous museum and it was amazing to see some of the things they found I was most impressed with the hundreds of keys there was a whole pile of them. We finally came to the conclusion if Rick and I want to go see things that the girls might not be interested in we have to do two things in one. One for us and one for the girls so after the Roman ruins we went to a little amusement park called Lochmuhle.
Black Forest Trip 2011
Our next stop on the Black Forest route was Staufen Germany. We stayed the night in Staufen in a cute little Gasthaus (hotel). Rick hiked up to the Castle in Staufen while the girls and I hit the flea market. We left Staufen and headed to Freiburg Germany. Freiberg was another great city. Freiburg's sister city is Madison Wisconsin so of course we had to take a picture with sign. Freiburg has little canals all around it so we bought the girls these little boats everyone floats along it was the highlight of their day. Along our drive through the Black forest we stopped for many photo opps and of course we had to go to the Cuckoo clock museum. Our final stop on our trip was Triberg we hiked to the waterfall it is the highest one in Germany.
Strasbourg France 2011
Labor day weekend we took a trip to the Black Forest. Our first stop was Strasbourg France. Strasbourg is a fabulous city. It is only 2 -1/2 hours from our house. The historic city center is an island with a huge church. great museums and wonderful restaurants. We spent half the day their on our way to drive the Black Forest route. The girls and I went TDY with Rick in October to Strasbourg for 4 days. The girls and I had a great time exploring and shopping while he was at work all day.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Finally I am updating the Blog
I know it has been forever since I updated this blog with our European adventures I had a good excuse my computer was broke. That excuse was only good for a couple of months I have no excuse for the rest of the months. So I am going to take this long weekend and upload all the photos from our trips and blog about them. So check back next week to see what has been going on with the Showalter's.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Computer trouble
Ok I know I said I would keep up with this blog and I will as soon as I get either a new computer or this one fixed. I can not up load any more photo's on to my Mac until I get rid of some of the 18,000 photo's I already have on it. When Rick gets home from his TDY I will try and update this blog with his computer he has all the new photo's on it. So check back soon and you will see some great photo's from the Black Forest and Oktoberfest in Munich. We are headed to France for a few days next week so hopefully by the next weekend I will have updated.
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