At the end of August, Sharon and a friend came from Maryland to visit me out here in Germany.....so to all you college friends who haven't come to Germany yet you better start making plans. Reese and I drove over to the train station in Luxembourg to pick them up after they had spent a few days in Paris. Reese settled right in with them and was immediately climbing into their laps, especially after Sharon gave her finger puppets which is still one of her favorite things to play with. While they were here we went to Idar Oberstein and saw the church in the rocks. Apparently the story goes, and I'm sure Bettina will find some inaccuracies in the version I was told since Idar Oberstein is her hometown, that there were two brothers who had castles on the top of the cliff, they got in a fight and the one brother pushed the other brother to his death. As penance for killing his brother he built the church on the spot where his brother died. Well we hiked up the hill to the church and it was really cool, there's an exit in the chapel where you can basically be between the church and the rock and walk between the to out to a little lookout spot. After we saw the church we hiked up the rest of the mountain to see the two castles. All that is left of one of them is some ruins, I imagine that one belonged to the brother that was killed.
[Our group, minus Chris, on the street getting ready to hike up to Felsenkirche (church in the rock)]
(Reese and I inbetween the church and the mountain)
(On our way up to Burg Bosselstein and Schloss Oberstein, the two castles)
While they were here, I also took them to Marksburg Castle, which is said to be the best preserved castle on the Rhine, and Trier because everyone that comes gets to go to Trier. Then they spent the weekend in Belgium at the formula one races and Sharon had to work on base the rest of the time before I took them to the airport on the 2nd. We were sad to see them go but luckily I have Sharon hooked on Europe now so I know I'll be able to coax her in to coming back out again soon.......I can't say the same thing for a certain other college roommate who chose to go on an alaskan cruise instead coming to play in Europe.
2 comments:
thats so cool that your friend came out to visit you! im sure it helps the time pass by faster with nate being gone.
reese is so cute! i wish brynn was that chill at that age...thats why we didnt travel much as it was just too much work to take her out.
BOOOOOOOO!
I'm glad you guys had a good time. I have no witty retort.
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