Kayla's Haircut

Before

After

Kayla was really excited to get her hair cut short like her best friend, Meghan. She was jumping and giddy the whole time she was getting her hair cut. I had to keep telling her to stop bouncing.

Herforster Fest

It was pouring rain the day we went to the fest for our village. It was really small - there were only 2 rides - a little merry go round and bumper cars. Kayla dropped one of our coins for the bumper cars into no mans land underneath the bumper car border and then Jessenia didn't put her seatbelt on and hurt her face. It was quite an adventure! Luckily the food was great. We loved the spiesbraten sandwiches and the bratwursts were really good too.

I like Jessenia's wide eyes in this picture.

Spencer with a Freeze Pop

Spencer was using gravity to get every last drop of juice out of his feeze pop. He's running away from me in this picture still holding the freeze pop to his head.

Trier with Grandma Diane and Jessenia

Kaiserthermen (Roman Bath) ruins

Porta Nigra - the original Roman gate into the city.

D0m cathedral

The fountain in front of the pink palace

The pink palace - I'm sure it has a real name, but that's what we call it.

Roman Ampitheatre

German Pancake

While Jessenia was visiting, she found a recipe in a magazine for a German panckake. It puffed up a lot and looked kind of crazy. I've never actually seen or heard of these here in Germany, but it was pretty good. It tasted like French toast, and we ate it with homemade jam and cool whip for dessert one night.

Cochem

We really enjoyed seeing Cochem castle. My mom did, however, injure her achilles tendon. We tried waiting for the shuttle bus up to the castle, which is at the top of a steep hill, but it was already full when it got there and only took about 2 more passengers. Instead of waiting another hour, we hiked up the hill. The kids did pretty well and luckily it was a really nice day. Our tour was actually really good even though it was in German. The guide was really animated and great with the kids and spoke to us a little bit in English too. The kids even got a chocolate gold coin from a treasure chest at the end of the tour.

Brayden actually wanted to be in a picture with the girls for a change.

Kayla and Jessenia


This guy must be from Holland. Check out the bright orange wooden clogs!

The overlook on the drive to the castle with the Mosel river and vineyards.

Cochem Castle

Mask from Italy

Jessenia in the mask - her shirt even matches.

Kayla in the mask, which is now on the wall.