Another Blast from the Past

The second weekend with Nate's family was spent in Holland. Our first stop was Amsterdam where we went on a tour of the Anne Frank House and wandered through the Rijks Museum. Amsterdam was very crowded and after we wandered around the city and saw the canals and all the bikers we had all seen enough. We split up and Nate and I headed out for our anniversary dinner while the rest of the family went and did their own thing. The next day we went to Zaanse Schans, which is an old Dutch village, and saw a demonstration on making wooden shoes and the making of Dutch cheese. It was a fun place to wander around and see all the people dressed in traditional dutch clothing.


And finally, the last weekend with the Crandalls we spent down in the black forest and in Switzerland. The black forest is a cool place and it's quite different from the part of Germany that we live in. The food is different, the architecture is different and even the language has a slight variation. We went to Triberg and hiked up the longest waterfall in Germany, it was a nice hike but the waterfall doesn't compare to the waterfalls in Hawaii. After the hike we went and looked at cuckoo clocks and had the Black Forest cake that I had been looking forward to.

Our final stop was in Adelboden, Switzerland where we went hiking in the Alps. When we were driving to Adelboden I was a little disappointed because the Alps didn't look that vast, but once we started hiking up them we got to where all you could see was peak after peak after peak. Jaeger loved hiking and I think she could have kept going if it wasn't for the fact that we had to head back down. Well, that's the whole story of the Crandall vacation to visit us in Germany, and now my mom has seen some pictures.