Life continues in a wonderful place

So there hasn't been much to report here in Deutschland.We have just recently switched to dayshift, so it has been an adjustment. Blake has started taking me to the gym to play raquetball with him. That's been fun and it gets me out of the house, although I'm not very good at it yet. I'm hoping, with practice, I'll get better. They also give cardio/kickboxing classes which I'm thinking about taking. It's so easy to fall into the "I don't feel like doing anything, so I won't" rut. I'm working on my quilt, which is coming along very nicely, and still trying to come up with some type of routine. It snowed one last time a couple of days ago, and the last remnants of the snow have finally dissappeared. Spring is here and everything is starting to turn green. I'm excited because this means more walking outside and getting to see this beautiful country we live in. I guess we live very close to a very old place where the kings of old gathered. It's a bunch of really big stone chairs, but it sounds interesting! Easter is the next big thing to hit for us here. We are planning on spending it with our friends, Jason and Kimberly. We will be going to the service on base and then coming home (to thier house) to a wonderful meal of roast beef. I'm pretty excited. I won't have to do much of the cooking (to everyones delight!), but I might make a cake for the occasion. Our newest news is that we might be going to England in May. That should be exciting. Blake's cousin's husband's cousin is getting married there and we were invited to come and join them. It will be nice to see a face from home. His cousin lived only a couple of hours from us when we lived in Texas, so we got to know her pretty well. It will be nice to see her again. I was just thinking about my mother being in Georgia. They really love it there and it's nice to see them home again. Blake and I love Georgia as well, however, we will most likely end up in the panhandle of Florida. That's close, though. Only about a 6 hour drive. Now all we need are Bud and Amy and Jess and Craig to make it down to that part of the world. Well, this is it for the moment, not a whole lot going on here, but I did want to at least update everyone on the apparent nothingness :)

The Black Forest

The largest kuckoo clock in the world.
Right outside the cafe where we ate our black forest cake.
The gnome...
The clock we traveled all this way to see. Not the largest, but pretty impressive.

The big squirrel.
The river that comes down from the waterfall.

Coming down from the waterfall walkway.

Kimberly and I went to The Black Forest today. It was quite enjoyable. We saw the worlds biggest kuckoo (sp?) clock. We ate black forest cake and saw the tallest waterfall in Germany. We actually didn't climb up to the very top of the waterfall, but we still saw it and it was beautiful! There are tons of clocks everywhere and the scenery is wonderful!!! It took us about two and a half hours to get there, but the drive was definetly worth it. The german's are sooo into the gnome thing. The squirrels are really big in the Black Forest, too. Now, I'm just waiting for Blake to get home from Spain. He's due in tonight and I can't wait to see him!!!!

Home again.

So, I'm back home again. It was a nice couple of weeks. I enjoyed spending it with my sister and it was very fun getting to know my sister-in-law better. I came home to my Valentines day gifts. The coffee table, two black bookshelves, curtains and pation furniture. They are beautiful! So, life is getting back to normal again. Blake is in Spain until Saturday or Sunday, so I havn't seen him yet, but I've talked to him. Gratch was so happy to see me. All I did was walk into the house and he started purring. My friend Kimberly's parents are in town, so we have a week of fun things planned. We are going to the Black Forest on Saturday. That should be intersting. I'll post pictures.