This Week in Germany!

Ok - I know I have not been great about posting this week - but its been a bit of a whirlwind and we have been out pretty much all day, getting in late at night which does not leave time for much posting. However, here I am to fill you in on the past few days in Deutschland. Wednesday was our first real day in here as Tuesday was pretty much a wash with the amount of jet lag we had. So, Wednesday morning after sleeping in until 10:30 AM (yes, even Mia) we packed Mae up in her fancy red Recaro car seat (which we rented through our rental car agency) and headed in direction Wiesbaden to visit my good friend Sarah who recently moved there with her husband. We had such a great day with her! She showed us around Wiesbaden where we saw amazing churches, beautiful market squares and lots of Americans! Ha! There are about 35,000 Americans living in this town and it seems like everywhere we were we ran into them. After Sarah showed us the highlights of Wiesbaden we drove to a small town in the Reingau where Sarah and her husband Richard have bought a home - Daniel and I were so impressed! Its such a cute little town and I can't wait to come back and visit them when they are all moved in so we can go down to the Weingarten - yes, that's right! Instead of a Biergarten its a Weingarten, right on the Rhine River. Amazing! After that we drove back to Wiesbaden to meet up with Sarah's husband Richard for dinner - we had a great dinner on a pedestrian only street so while we ate Mia did a little window shopping which was fine with me because it allowed us to eat in peace and kept her occupied!!!!

Yesterday (Thursday), my aunt and her boyfriend Wolfgang took us to the Opel Zoo which was a lot of fun. It was more of a petting zoo with animals like deer, donkeys, pigs, goat, sheep, fox, ducks, etc. Mia had a blast feeding carrots to all the animals. I was amazed that they allowed dogs on leash at the zoo! Can you imagine? Tucker would have gone crazy had he been there. After that we went home so Mia could nap and then went to dinner at a place called Flamms, which serves Flammkuchen, a traditional meal from the Elsace region. It was delicious!

Today we are back in Wiesbaden ... after a nice hike up to Neroberg, we saw a beautiful Russian Orthodox Cathedral and took a funicular back down the mountain. Lots of fun! Now, we are off to a big festival in town that we saw being set up two days ago - looked like a party! Hope these pictures upload soon! Tomorrow we are off to Cologne - will update you all once we are there. Hope everyone back home is doing well! We miss you, but sure are having fun!