The last two weekends...

Ok, so I am bad at writing in here. It's not like I don't have the time because I REALLY do. Oh well here's what happen over the last two weekends. It's a LONG post so happy reading....

Last weekend (May 21 and 22) we went to Trier. It's a cute village that had beautiful churches, beautiful roads and it has a building that houses ruins of a Roman Bath house. If you saw the pictures on shutterfly then you might not know what the pictures were of and I am sorry for that. Shutterfly won't let me write anything about the pictures. Now if you have Facebook then you got a description with each picture. We also got our first pet that day it was a yellow fish named Fred. He is really spastic. So he is hard to take a picture of.

This last weekend (May 28, 29 and 30) well lets start on Saturday. Saturday we went on a road trip to Koln. Koln has a really big Aquarium store that Will needed to go to for our tank. So we set off. Let me tell you the freeways here are nothing like back home or anywhere I have ever driven. When there's an off ramp there isn't always an on ramp on the other side. Or even 20 miles later is there an on ramp on the other side. So don't get off the freeway unless you know for sure that's your exit! We got lost for about 3 hours. Frustrating but nothing we could do about it. We did however take an exit and found an Ikea which was a place we needed to go. So we figured since we were there we might as well get what we needed. We bought a TON of stuff for our house. We bought a kitchen table, two table chairs, a coffee table, and end table, a dresser for Will and two night stand. Wow we spent a lot but we needed all the things we bought. So after loading the car FULL of all of the boxes we were off in search for Koln again. It was now 2pm and we didn't get to the aquarium store til almost 4. Thankfully it didn't close until 6. We bought some snails, hermit crabs, and 6 little blue fishies that swim together like a school of fish. I'm not going to name all of them because they all look alike but I need a name for the 'school' of them. We bought the hermits and snails to help clean the tank.

Sunday- We had a PJ day! That was really nice. We spent the day building all the furniture and placing them in the correct rooms. It is nice to have the bedroom almost finished. All we really need is a bed frame. And the living room all we need are 2 couches and some rugs. We also snuggled on the couch and watched movies all day too!!

Monday- Being here we celebrate German holiday's and American ones. Therefore Will had Monday off. We decided to go see a castle in Koblenz. But of course the roads getting there couldn't be easy. We had to take a detour through a bunch of little towns. While driving between towns on a beautiful windy road through a forest and saw a castle up upon a mountain top. We knew that wasn't the one we were looking for but hey cool we found one on our own. But when we hiked up a little hill it was closed. We walked around the outside took a few pictures and headed back to find the Eltz Castle. As we were driving into another town we  saw a building that could look like a castle from a far. Yet again, not our castle but it was a beautiful church. Again we took some pictures and we on the road again. Now still on the detour we start seeing signs for the Eltz Castle the one we were looking for. WOW, was this place amazing! This castle is still lived in by the family and has been for 33 generations. That's a lot of generations. We walked the grounds and paid for a tour in english (thankfully). We couldn't take pictures inside the the rooms we toured but what a sight to see. Things were from the 1400's and on. The details of the paintings, walls, carvings and so much more was beautiful to see. The castle also was having some restoration being done. With big storms and a large fire in 1920 there are cracks that are threatening the castle's structure in certain places. So they are fixing it. We got some amazing shots. All on Facebook and Shutterfly.

All in all it was a great weekend. We were going to go to Paris but with Will in his ALS classes he wasn't able to get his international driver license. He has a German one but in order to drive in other countries he needs an international one. So another time!

I heard the weather in California has been crazy with rain storms and tornadoes. Crazy! It was over cast/ cloudy with sunshine for the last two weeks here with rain for about an hour on a few days. But this weekend was perfect. It was sunny with little white fluffy clouds on Saturday. Sunday was sunny and Monday was sunny and 75 degrees. I couldn't have picked a better weekend. NOW, Tuesday it is pouring down rain and has been since this morning so I guess it's our turn for the rain!

Hope everyone is good because we are great here! Love you all and I'll try to be better about writing in here!

Love,
Heather

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