I have so many pictures that I want to share of our time together that this is going to be super long- please forgive me. It was just too special to me not to share. I am going to group the picture by location and in order of when we visited them with stuff that happened at the house being the last.
Nurnberg
This is where they flew into so we spent the first day here as well as part of one of the last days that they were here so we could do some shopping.
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| Me and my brother, Kyle, taking our first Germany selfie together |
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| Kyle and Daniel- bffs |
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| We had lunch at a brat house so they could experience their first German food |
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| Crazy statue in the middle of the shopping strip |
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| Gorgeous cathedral |
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| Cathedral from another angle |
Weiden
We spent the day after they arrived at the house just letting them adjust and then on Friday we went to a little town near by called Weiden. It wasn't anything special but it got them out of the house plus this is where the farmer's market is on Saturdays and Wenesdays.
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| The pedestrian area of Weiden |
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| My handsome hubs and in the background where the red umbrellas are is where we had lunch |
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| Another picture of the pedestrian zone |
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| My awesome daddy in front of the fountain. (kids love to play in it) |
Devil's Cave
Devil's Cave is a cave about 30 minutes from our house that I have been really wanting to go on a tour of so we decided that taking Dad and Kyle would be the perfect opportunity. We also went to the restaurant next to it that everyone talks about. I have no idea how to spell the German name but all the Americans call it steak on a stone because they have an option where you can have different kinds of meat brought out to you to cook on a hot stone. It is pretty cool and is by far the most delicious place we have eaten since we have been here. We also found some great hiking trails I want to take Luna back to!
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| View from the mouth of the cave |
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| Daniel and Me at the exit of the cave |
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| Daniel's pork and beef hot stone plate |
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| My favorite pic from the highest point we were at that day |
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| Quite possibly my favorite pic of the day |
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| We got the exotic meat platter for the whole table to share. It has crocodile, wild hare, ostrich, and kangaroo and they were all good |
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| Daddy, Kyle, and me! I love them! |
Kulmbach
Sunday we took another rest day and then on Monday we drove an hour to Kulmbach to check out a castle. It turned out not to be that great. It didn't look a lot like a castle, was up a huge hill we had to hike to get there, and it was more museum style.
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| View from the front of the castle |
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| Castle courtyard |
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| The church that was in the castle |
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| Another view from the front of the castle |
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| Part of the castle |
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| A torture chair that was on display |
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| The castle from where we parked |
Nurnburg Zoo
Kyle loves animals and was really looking forward to the zoo. By this point in the week Daniel was pretty exhausted and decided to sleep in and spend the day at home, which is probably a good thing because a few things happened that would have annoyed him: we took the train and because I got a bit lost, as we pulled into the train station parking lot the train we needed to get on was just leaving; when we were trying to get on the train to go home we went to the wrong platform and that caused us to miss the train
again; then on the train home we were joking around and laughing so hard
five people moved to another train car. It was an awesome day!
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| Kyle loved the gorillas and right after Dad made a joke about how bad their gas must be this big boy let one rip |
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| Daddy and me |
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| His antlers were too cool |
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| Loved the polar bears! |
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| Red panda |
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| I LOVE this baby sea lion... seriously, someone get me one |
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| I think this was my favorite part of the day |
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| We loved the goats |
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| #GoatSelfie no, that's not a thing? |
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| Oh well, more #goatselfies |
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| The pictures with the goats were just too good not to post a ton of |
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| Last one... promise! |
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| I need a sea lion! |
Home
We spent several days at home relaxing and recovering from the travel we had been doing since it was so hot! Plus it was nice to have time where we were just being together and not trying to get here and go there and see this and do that.
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| Kyle let me color in this tattoo |
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| Here we are with my work in progress |
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| Daddy playing with Luna |
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| Then resting and using her as a pillow |
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| He pulled the old man card and fell asleep in the rocking chair |
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