We are all back in Germany after our trip back to the U.S. and spent the week catching up on sleep and things around the house. MLK weekend is another four day weekend for the base and we had originally planned to go to Tromso, Norway, but our flights ended up getting cancelled. This wasContinue reading “Week 35: Prague”
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Home for Christmas
We had an awesome trip home for the holidays! It was so nice to catch up with family and friends. We had originally planned on a two week stay but Ryan and I both tested positive for Covid on the last day so had to extend our stay for another week. We are all backContinue reading “Home for Christmas”
Week 32: Getting Ready for Christmas
Our last week in Stuttgart for the year! Monday night was finally our last German class. We each had to give a ten minute presentation to the class for our final exam. We both passed the presentation and passed the class with A’s. Thank God we got the same scores so neither one of usContinue reading “Week 32: Getting Ready for Christmas”
Week 31: Christmas Markets!
It was another “normal” week at home. School, work, German classes, and after-school activities. German class is really getting old! I’m enjoying learning a new language but I am so tired of rushing from work to three hours of class twice a week. Granted, I am mostly working from home and the class is virtualContinue reading “Week 31: Christmas Markets!”
Week 30: Winter Time
I can’t believe another week has flown past us. It’s been cold for a couple of weeks now, but this week it was COLD! It has snowed almost every night and some of the days, with some freezing rain mixed in, hence we stayed home almost every day. The exception being the kids going toContinue reading “Week 30: Winter Time”
Week 29: Thanksgiving Week
This week started with shuffling several plans around. Originally, we were unable to find a dog kennel over Thanksgiving weekend but recently some space opened up and we immediately booked the dogs and made plans to go to Austria and Slovakia for Christmas markets. This past weekend, both countries were put into lockdown and ontoContinue reading “Week 29: Thanksgiving Week”
Week 28: Italian Thanksgiving
Things are starting to look like Christmas around Germany! Germans don’t really celebrate Halloween and of course, don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. They sort of just jump into it when it starts getting cold. Many markets and attractions have started early this year in an attempt to space things out with Covid on the rise so thereContinue reading “Week 28: Italian Thanksgiving”
Week 27: Alsace, France
This weekend, we were able to make a quick trip across the border to Alsace, France. We made Strasbourg, only an hour and a half away and just across the border in France, our base. We got a late start on Friday and drove through some of the thickest fog we have ever seen; weContinue reading “Week 27: Alsace, France”
Week 26: Visitors!
This post is long overdue but we’ve been super busy enjoying our first visitors from the USA! Our dear friends Megan and Pat made the long trip to see us. We picked them up from the airport Saturday morning and gave them a few minutes to drop their things at our house before dragging themContinue reading “Week 26: Visitors!”
Week 25: Halloween
Week 25 and surprise, surprise, it was another busy one! Brooklyn took the Red Cross babysitting class every day after school. She finished the course and is now a certified babysitter and is also on a referral list on base for parents looking for sitters! The kids also had picture day this week, which wasContinue reading “Week 25: Halloween”
Gilcrests Abroad 