My parents went to Prague and all we got were these lousy babushkas...part 2

My parents went to Prague and all we got were these lousy babushkas

We come all the way to Germany...traveled for a whole day with connections...and what do Mom and Dad do when we get here???? Ditch us and go to Prague. They drove to the Czech Republic on the autobahn (I think Mom may have had a heart attack or two) and then drove back the next day. They stayed in a cool hotel in the middle of old town and walked the city's winding streets across the King Charles bridge to Prague Castle where the President lives. Mom says it is one of the the most incredible cities she has ever seen and next time we will definitely get to go too.

Snow and castles

Hopped in the car today and drove to see Crazy King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein castle near the Alps. It is the castle they modeled Sleeping Beauty's castle after. It was huge and totally cool and he never even lived there. We walked up a lot of stairs and got to see only about 1/3 of the castle. The rest was never finished. We highly recommend seeing a castle at some point of your lives. It is mind boggling. The yellow castle was another one nearby - even older than Neuschwanstein. This was definitely one of the coolest days we have spent in Germany.

Cold as a you-know-whatski!

As you all know, we are in Germany. There are so many things to tell and so many pictures to post. Today, we went ice skating on a little lake by my friend Mara's house in Pocking. I am sure in 20 years or so people won't be able to do this anymore with global warming and all. But for this day... we were good to go...skating that is. We packed up our skates and our cookies and kinderpunch and headed to the lake for some old fashioned sledding and skating. It was so cool. Real cool - as Mom says ever since she got back from Prague - it was cold as a you-know-whatski.

Germany week 1

We tried to post this a week ago but the computer was not cooperating....

We arrived in Germany safely and now we are on day three of jet lag. We were awake from 12am to 3am last night and couldn't peel ourselves out of bed before 11:00 this morning. We are having the best time with our friends Piet and Mara and today they helped us celebrate Marlena's 5th birthday by having a birthday breakfast and walking in the snow at Ilkahohe. Then we had some hot chocolate and apfelstrudel while we warmed our toes. Yesterday we took a train to Munich and walked through the Christmas market at the town center. It was packed with people shopping and drinking something called gluhwein. Tomorrow we are going to attempt to drive ourselves to another little village about 15 minutes away. Hopefully Daddy won't do anything too crazy. We are not sure if her can even read the street signs! More to come later...

Another tooth gone and an early birthday celebration

Well, I lost another tooth the day before Thanksgiving. That's two in two weeks. At this rate, I won't have any teeth in my mouth by Christmas! On a lighter note, I celebrated my 5th birthday a bit early with my friends as I will be in Germany on my actual birthday. We went to a pottery studio with four of my school mates and painted pottery. Ava and I both picked a beautiful unicorn box. After the studio fires the boxes we can pick them up and keep them in our rooms. We can't wait to see how they turned out! Stay tuned and we will post a picture so you can see the finished product.

Goodbye tooth...hello Tooth Fairy!

So I lost my first tooth today and Mom said she was going to Super glue it back in my mouth because I am only 4 and she isn't ready for me to grow up yet. Doesn't that sound a bit extreme?!?! I mean, I AM going to be 5 in a month and a half. Geez Mom.

Flutterbies for Halloween

A perfect day in Texas for trick or treating.

East Coast Trifecta - DE, PA and NYC

Wow! We never knew 10 days could fly by so quickly. There wasn't one minute we weren't doing something, going somewhere, meeting someone or doing catch up homework! It was fun, fun, fun. Seeing Daddy was the best part of all as we hadn't spend time with him for six weeks! The rest of the trip went something like this... Fly into Philadelphia, eat, drive to Delaware and settle in for the night. Next day we had the chance to meet our blog buddies Ava and Mia Cruz face to face for the first time. We had a lovely dinner at their house and hung out with their crazy pugs Olive and Olivia. Monday we went to our old stomping ground - NYC. The subway, pizza at Lombardy's, gelato in Little Italy, Times Square, carousel at Byant Park (even though the silly thing was closed to shoot the Sex in the City movie - who the heck do they think they are?!?!?!), horse and carriage ride through Central Park - all in 24 hours. We never did any of that touristy stuff when we lived there so this was pure fun! Drove home and had a big family reunion dinner with GGmom Dixon and the crew.

Next day was Wednesday and we took a well deserved rest. Caught up on a smidge of playtime in the backyard and did some yoga and homework. Thursday we drove to the Pocono mountains to spend the night with Grandmom Wells. She has a dog, lots of kitty cats and two families of deer that come through her yard to feed several times a day. Feeding them apples and pears that had fallen from the trees was so much fun! She also has a bear that comes around but thankfully, we did not see him. Before we left we carved a pumpkin for her but she said the deer ate that too! On Saturday we got to go to the greatest party in Delaware - the Roat's Annual Fall Festival. There were drums, facepainting, ghost stories and an authentic tee pee with a fire inside! This party was extra cool for two reasons: our friends Ava and Mia were there and our parents were not!!!!! Mommy and Daddy had to go to a wedding so we went home with the Cruz girls that night. As usual we got to bed late but had a wonderful time. Sunday night we found ourselves back at the Cruz house for dinner and were joined by the Roats (of the Roat's Annual Fall Festival). After dinner there was some major karaoke going on. We chose Gwen Stefani and The White Stripes and Daddy even sang some Whitney Houston (we think she may be out of his range a little bit). Once again, we think Ava and Mia might have gotten to bed a bit late for a school night - sorry!

The last day of our trip was quite special. We went to visit our GG mom Wells. She just turned 89. She can't walk, but she still acts like she's 25! We fed the birds with her and then joined her for dinner. Tears were definitely flowing at the end of that visit! So as we said before, a whirlwind tour to be sure...but we had a wonderful time catching up with family and spending time with new friends. Thank you to everyone that made our trip so special - especially Andy, Stephanie, Ava and Mia Cruz and Rich, Sharon, Sebastian and Anna Roat.

Happy Birthday Aunt Linzee!

Our Aunt Linzee is the coolest! She is the greatest vet in the whole wide world and she is the one that kept Rosey for us until we got to Texas. Rosey and Aunt Linz have a real soft spot for each other so we wanted to help Rosey say Happy Birthday because we know she would want to.