Saturday, December 10, 2005

Update!

Are you suprised that I am updating our blog? Sorry it's been a while. I need to block out an hour once a week, so that I can update this! Sorry.

Well, since I've posted last, we had the chance to visit Munich. My cousin Becky Glauser was staying there for a while, so we were able to stay with her. We had a fun visit. Munich has lifesize statues of lions everywhere. Each lion is painted a different way, and has a different theme. That was Reilyn's favorite part. She was on a quest to find as many lions as she could, and wanted me to take a picture of her with each of them! We were able to visit the beautiful castle Neuswanstein (I know I'm spelling it wrong.)

Becky was able to come back home to Wuerzburg with us. We decided we wanted to travel a little bit, so we went down to Salzburg, Austria. We stayed there for a day and night and loved it!! It's where Mozart was born and grew up, and it was also where the Sound of Music was filmed. It is a beautiful city. Then next day was a pretty crazy one for us. We woke up early, and went straight to Innsbruck-- which was also a very charming town. The drive there was amazing! We were driving the huge Alps the whole time, and actually going through them in dozens of tunnels. One tunnel was 14 km long. We were pretty nervous in that one.

From there we drove to the smallest country called Lichtenstein-- which is only about 40 miles long, and probably 3 miles wide! It took us less than an hour to drive through it (the long ways).

Then we decided to go to Zurich, Switzerland and stay the night there. Well, once we got there, we drove around looking for a hotel, and discovered that the cheapest hotel we could find would have cost us $150! We decided that we would just eat something there, and drive back up to Germany and find a hotel there. We did, and found the most charming little hotel, that was beautiful, and only cost us $5o. So we thought it was pretty cool that we were in 4 different countries in one day.

This past month has been fun to see all the little Christmas Markets. But we are difinitely getting homesick as Christmas approaches. We got snow a couple days after Thanksgiving, and it stayed for about a week. Reilyn and I built a little snowman, and she loved it! She still talks about how sad she is that it melted.

I'll try and find some good photos to post from our trips.

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