Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter Weekend

Mom and Papa came over for a few hours on Saturday. It was so fun to have them. They brought Easter baskets and eggs and we partied!


Elli lovin it!


Elli loves to play hide and seek. Great hiding spot, but the rug is kinda lumpy.


Abby found her. Big shocker.


Fishy #1


Fishy #2




This is the "Holzmarkt" market place. Six months and they've already named a market place after us. We took a 30 min train ride to this town, the girls loved the train. Except Abby who blew up on the way home. A little rain but a fun trip otherwise.


I am totally spanking Elli in ping pong!

Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree

Hair Saloon

Abby and Elli Cooking

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Tempel und Heidelburg

Elli and Abby sitting on the temple wall. Moments earlier it could have appropriately been called the wailing wall. So is life with 2 girlies but they sure are cute when they sit still.


Frankfurt Tempel


Cute German homeless girl


Heidelberg castle - one of the coolest German castles as far as history goes. This castle was big around 1500's. Martin Luther came through Heidelberg and gave a famous sermon against the CAtholic church. He noted that the castle looked like it had great defenses. Maybe that made the Dukes who lived here overly proud and pick fights easily because this place was seiged three times and demolished twice in a hundred year period. The day before the last king was going to move in and remodel lightning struck and destroyed the large wood portion. He decided it was sign from heaven not to live here.


Elli liked this fountain.





The last time the French conquerers invaded and took the castle they blew up the outside walls with mines. I think this is what caused this huge section of the torret to slide off.




Heidelberg Castle 1620 - Renneisance terraced gardens (lots of earth moving to make this happen)