Another Fun Day

Another beautiful, if slightly chilly, day here in Germany. No random trips to foreign countries - but we did go to church and then explored the local area. I have no exciting stories - we just found a castle ruin that I had seen along the way from Freisen to St. Wendel last week, then explored the bridge over Oberkirchen, which was "re-discovered" last week on the way home from St. Wendel.

Below is just a random photo that I had been thinking of for a while. Not exactly what I was planning, but about the best of the bunch.

This one is the Liebersburg castle/tower that has been recently rebuilt. If you look closely there is a staircase that climbs the outside of the tower (on the left hand side) - it has some pretty nifty views.

And by now everyone should realize that I've been collecting ammo to break out in the teen-age years. Ahhh, good times...

This last one is from the bridge over Oberkirchen. 30 meters (roughly 100 ft.) tall - it has great views on both sides not just of Oberkirchen, but of the surrounding countryside too.

We are preparing for a move in the next several weeks. As part of that our phone/internet will be disconnected. The Germans like to run complete year packages - and we've been off-post for a year now. We'll be taking our computers to the library on post to connect from time to time - but look for posts to slow down shortly. And don't expect phone calls until we make it back to the States. It's not that we don't want to talk - we just won't have a phone to do it.

Have a wonderful day. Tschuss!

Marc

The View from Here (revisited)

I've been thinking about this particular photo for about a year now. I've either forgotten about it with everything going on, or the weather wasn't right, the light wasn't right, or I thought I'd do it "later". Well, "later" was today!

This is the view from our patio (and the living room window too). It is a view that we enjoy daily. The castle (Burg Lichtenberg) has been featured in several of my photos before. I considered cropping out some of the satellite dish nonsense, but that would just take too much time and I'd rather spend it doing other stuff.

This is where we eat al fresco when we outside at home. Today was most certainly an al fresco day!

After dinner I got out my flash and umbrella to get some portrait-y type photos of the kids. Ian didn't want to stand still for very long, so I'm happy I got this one of him.

Leah was dancing for a song that Ian was playing on one of his toys. This one is not shy in front of the camera!

And here you can see Leah doing her "vogue".

Finally, I sneakily left my camera on its tripod during dinner tonight to try to capture some of the action. This was the best of the mess - nothing terribly interesting, just a view of us enjoying dinner and the local scenery.

Oh yeah, this has been a super weekend. Nancy and I made a trip into Belgium on Saturday so she could reunite with Miho and I could make a beer run (JACKPOT!!). I was truly like a kid in the candy store - check out Pelgrims if you are ever north and east of Brussels and love Belgian beers. AND Christina arrived earlier today. Naturally we had to rush over to St. Wendel for the Easter Market, the warm and lovely spring version of the much loved Weinachtsmarkt (Christmas Market).

Have a wonderful day everybody, we most certainly have.

Cheers,

Marc