Here are some of the cute things that my littlest niece, McKenzie (age 6) said to me today on the phone:
T: Whatcha doing Princess?
K: tasting grapes
T: Which one you like the best?
K: The purple ones...
T: What about the red ones?
K: Ewww... they are sour...
T: Not all of them... just some...
K: I don't care... that one was...
No arguing with that point... if one is sour, then they are all sour...
A little bit later in the short lived conversation while at the grocery store...
T: What do you want the Easter Bunny to bring you in your Easter basket?
K: I dunno...
T: You don't know what you want to find in your Easter basket?
K: I don't know what he wants to bring me...
T: Oh... do you want Aunt Tracey to come home for Easter?
K: YES!!!!
T: Why?
K: Cause...
T: Cause why???
K: Cause I love you!!!
Ok... I was driving in Friday pre-5:00 traffic at this point, coming to a stop for the slow moving cars on the off-ramp from 820N to N 35W... I almost cried! That was sooo cute and sooo sweet!!!!
Friday, March 23, 2007
On the road again...
Well more like in the air again... then on a boat...
I am getting ready to fly to Houston tomorrow before heading to Galveston on Sunday for the cruise!!!
One of my close friends in Tulsa is getting married on the cruise, which is why I am going on a cruise in the middle of the school year! I think it is quite an honor to be asked to stand up as the "BEST GIRL" for my friend Jason at his wedding! To think, when I met him 9 years ago he swore he was never going to get married, let alone have kids... and yet, he is getting married and gaining two precious daughters!!!!
Hopefully this trip will be a blast!!! If it isn't... I'm gonna ask for a refund!!! :) Keep posted as I will be putting up pictures from the cruise after we get back in April!!!
I am getting ready to fly to Houston tomorrow before heading to Galveston on Sunday for the cruise!!!
One of my close friends in Tulsa is getting married on the cruise, which is why I am going on a cruise in the middle of the school year! I think it is quite an honor to be asked to stand up as the "BEST GIRL" for my friend Jason at his wedding! To think, when I met him 9 years ago he swore he was never going to get married, let alone have kids... and yet, he is getting married and gaining two precious daughters!!!!
Hopefully this trip will be a blast!!! If it isn't... I'm gonna ask for a refund!!! :) Keep posted as I will be putting up pictures from the cruise after we get back in April!!!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Home sweet home
Home sweet home! I am very thrilled to be back home and sleeping in my own bed! I loved being in Germany, please don't misread what is written here... it is soooo green and pretty there with awesome winding roads and tons of incredibly tall trees and hills and mountains and narrow roads and fast driving... but there is something special about being at home... the monotany of everyday normal life...
Which is what I am attempting to recreate today, my first day back in the states! I am unpacking, putting away stuff, doing laundry and oh yeah, repacking for the trip that I will leaving for on Saturday...
I am going to try to get my pictures uploaded to my computer at some point today and hopefully I will get a photoalbum sent out to my family and friends within the week!!!
Thanks for all the prayers for a safe return!
Which is what I am attempting to recreate today, my first day back in the states! I am unpacking, putting away stuff, doing laundry and oh yeah, repacking for the trip that I will leaving for on Saturday...
I am going to try to get my pictures uploaded to my computer at some point today and hopefully I will get a photoalbum sent out to my family and friends within the week!!!
Thanks for all the prayers for a safe return!
Thursday, March 15, 2007
some pictures from Germany
Here are a few pictures from my trip:
This is the base that Jeremy is assigned- we have been here a few times... to get gas, groceries... to just drive through!!!!
This is in Trier. This is a roman ruin... actually it is the Porta Nigra, one of the four city gates. It is the only one remaining. Kinda cool huh?
Once again in Trier- this is the Dom... or Trier Cathedral. It has been built in different segments from something like 1200 - 1500... for more information before I get home and make a kodak photo album go to www.trierer-dom.de I haven't found the ENGLISH option, so it is only in German. But it still has some cool pics!!! Also try this link: http://www.dominformation.de/internet-de/servlet/broker_uMen,ba460a2f-70d6-c7f0-eb30-bd8bc1d2b31b,ts.html It has a list of some of the different cathedrals in Trier. We also went to St. Paulus, St. Gangolf, and a few others that are not on this list.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Deutschland days 5 & 6
Gutentag!!!
Tuesday was an interesting day! After going on our little adventure to Essen and Koln (Cologne) on Monday and getting lost and detouring/touring the countryside, we slept in... really, really late... as in Jeremy got out of bed at noon and Teresa when he woke her up at 12:30! I woke up at 7:45 and read my book until almost 10:30 when I realized that no one else was going to wake up, I just went back to sleep myself! I figured if I couldn't beat them, I might as well rejoin them! I guess I needed my sleep... I have this natural tendency to wake up here every night about 1:15 or 1:30 and stay awake until about 2:00 am... then I sleep great until about 8! So anyhow, we left the house about 1:45 pm to go to this mysterious location... Jeremy wouldn't tell us where we were going. He wanted to take us to this castle in Malberg. But we got turned around in Kyllburg and visited an old catholic church, took some pictures then went back down the road, around the turn-about (again) and went a different direction! We finally made it to Grundsanierung Schloss Malberg (Malberg house). We were unable to tour the premises for reasons unknown, we didn't understand what the lady was saying from the wall and I honestly don't think she understood what we were asking of her! We did take some pictures of what we could see them we hiked over to this cemetery and up to the top of the hill that the cemetery is built in. After we finished with this adventure we stopped at this THAI restaurant to eat dinner. Yes, I ate Thai! I must say that I only agreed to eat there because Brian had already introduced me to some Americanized Thai food! I had some fried rice with chicken dinner. It was alright... I think that I like the noodles that Brian gets a little better, but I couldn't find what I wanted in the menu and it wasn't a buffet... Then finally we went into Trier to find this statue of a Roman on top of a hill. We drove up to the top and attempted to take some pictures of the nightlights of Trier. I did get a few pictures of the statue and the cross that is up there.
Wednesday (today) we slept in some... then got up and around... we went back to Trier to see the sights there. Trier has history dating back to the roman ages!!! Go to www.trier.de for more information! This town is incredibly awesome!!!! I could have spent several days in the roman part of the town just looking at the different sites and going through things! I bought some souvenirs for the girls, and managed to remember to buy something for me!
My picture count is now up to almost 200 pictures! When I arrived I had about 1250 pictures available on my memory card and now I am down to about 1000 pictures left!
Upcoming events: tomorrow we are planning on going into Luxembourg, a country that is smaller than the state of New York... there are a kazillion things to do in this country! Check out this website for some information about the country: www.ont.lu We are definitely going to be visiting the American cemetery where General Patton is buried... as well as touring some castles! YEAH!!!!!
Tuesday was an interesting day! After going on our little adventure to Essen and Koln (Cologne) on Monday and getting lost and detouring/touring the countryside, we slept in... really, really late... as in Jeremy got out of bed at noon and Teresa when he woke her up at 12:30! I woke up at 7:45 and read my book until almost 10:30 when I realized that no one else was going to wake up, I just went back to sleep myself! I figured if I couldn't beat them, I might as well rejoin them! I guess I needed my sleep... I have this natural tendency to wake up here every night about 1:15 or 1:30 and stay awake until about 2:00 am... then I sleep great until about 8! So anyhow, we left the house about 1:45 pm to go to this mysterious location... Jeremy wouldn't tell us where we were going. He wanted to take us to this castle in Malberg. But we got turned around in Kyllburg and visited an old catholic church, took some pictures then went back down the road, around the turn-about (again) and went a different direction! We finally made it to Grundsanierung Schloss Malberg (Malberg house). We were unable to tour the premises for reasons unknown, we didn't understand what the lady was saying from the wall and I honestly don't think she understood what we were asking of her! We did take some pictures of what we could see them we hiked over to this cemetery and up to the top of the hill that the cemetery is built in. After we finished with this adventure we stopped at this THAI restaurant to eat dinner. Yes, I ate Thai! I must say that I only agreed to eat there because Brian had already introduced me to some Americanized Thai food! I had some fried rice with chicken dinner. It was alright... I think that I like the noodles that Brian gets a little better, but I couldn't find what I wanted in the menu and it wasn't a buffet... Then finally we went into Trier to find this statue of a Roman on top of a hill. We drove up to the top and attempted to take some pictures of the nightlights of Trier. I did get a few pictures of the statue and the cross that is up there.
Wednesday (today) we slept in some... then got up and around... we went back to Trier to see the sights there. Trier has history dating back to the roman ages!!! Go to www.trier.de for more information! This town is incredibly awesome!!!! I could have spent several days in the roman part of the town just looking at the different sites and going through things! I bought some souvenirs for the girls, and managed to remember to buy something for me!
My picture count is now up to almost 200 pictures! When I arrived I had about 1250 pictures available on my memory card and now I am down to about 1000 pictures left!
Upcoming events: tomorrow we are planning on going into Luxembourg, a country that is smaller than the state of New York... there are a kazillion things to do in this country! Check out this website for some information about the country: www.ont.lu We are definitely going to be visiting the American cemetery where General Patton is buried... as well as touring some castles! YEAH!!!!!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Deutschland day 4
Well it is day four of our trip... we didn't do a whole lot today. We drove to a town north of here called ESSEN (north of Cologne or Koln) to go to a horse show... apparently this is a big deal horse show... and it is also in the states... We had quite the adventure getting home!!! It took us about 2 hours to get to Essen, and about 5 getting home! I was following the "directions" from the computer, just in reverse, only problem was that most of the signs that we saw going to the place were not the ones we were needing to see on teh way home... go figure... I did get us back to Cologne, I just managed to get us a little further to the east than we needed to be... when we stopped (cause I wasn't 100% sure where we were) we were almost to Bonn... which is between Cologne and Euskrich and to the east... We retraced our steps, went back to Cologne and tried again. We still missed the exit that we needed but that is alright we found another city on the map that we recognized and that got us home. THe problem with driving here in Germany is that the autobahns aren't labeled like our highways are in the states... Example to get to my house in Justin you would exit I-35W at exit 76 Argyle/Justin... not that way here... you have a sign with city names (which are long and hard to pronounce) with some random numbers either in a box, a circle, or in some other shape within a box that are supposed to mean something but they don't... you don't always exit the highway either when your directions say to exit...sometimes you just stay straight... yeah... it was an adventure.
I am hopeful that tomorrow we will actually do some sight seeing and get out of the house. I am DYING to see some of the castles and cathedrals and roman ruins that are in this area!!! Things that I can't see in the states!!!!
Can anyone believe that I have only taken like 6 pictures since I left my house on Thursday? Yeah... a few on the plane and one of a windmill in the sunset... shocking huh?
I am hopeful that tomorrow we will actually do some sight seeing and get out of the house. I am DYING to see some of the castles and cathedrals and roman ruins that are in this area!!! Things that I can't see in the states!!!!
Can anyone believe that I have only taken like 6 pictures since I left my house on Thursday? Yeah... a few on the plane and one of a windmill in the sunset... shocking huh?
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Deutschland days 1, 2, and 3
Gutentag! Greetings from Germany!
My friend's mom, Teresa, and I left DFW on Thursday afternoon to fly out to Luxembourg (it is a separate country, it is not part of Germany). The flight from DFW to Zurich, Switzerland was pretty boring... just cramped in a tiny space and trying to figure out how to sleep during the 10 hours we were going to be on the plane! Then in Zurich we almost missed our flight! We found our gate rather easily and went back up stairs to look around some more and decided to go back to our gate only to find out that our plane was boarding!!!! We gave our ticket to the lady, boarded a bus and drove out to the plane and left!!! This smaller plane was much MORE comfortbale than the bigger plane that we flew over on!!!! When we got to Luxembourg we realized that Teresa's checked luggage did not arrive with mine or with us! We were told that they would call when it arrived and they would bring it to us... uh huh!!! We went home, took brief naps, then went to Spangdahlem AF base to get some stuff. Mental note to everyone reading... always carry your passport with you, or at least two forms of picture ID when attempting to get on a military base!!! I finally found a second form of picture ID... my COstco card!!! When we got home we realized that the airline had called us... so I called back and was on hold for over 30 minutes when I finally hung up! I kept trying to call back but it was busy... go figure! Then I finally got through about 15 minutes from their closing time and was put on hold again for more than 20 minutes! We just decided that we would go get the luggage ourself on Saturday!
Saturday we all woke up around noon and drove into Luxembourg to retrieve the missing luggage... woohoo!!! Now we all have fresh clothes! We went onto Bitburg AF base today! The bases are neat little communities! We grilled steak and potatoes for dinner and watched a movie. From what I saw, "The Illusionist" is a good movie. I really should watch it again so that I can see the ending!
Sunday was another relaxing day. Most places in Germany are closed on Sunday so we hung out at the house then went to Bitburg again to buy a necklace for Teresa. On the way there we saw a cute old church... when we stopped to take pictures of it we saw these wooden signs that said something on them so we followed them down this muddy trail and saw what I think is a bathhouse and a little church/prayerhouse... I will have to have Jurgen translate for me and I will let you all know what we saw when I post the pictures!
Other than our few adventures so far, it has been good. Friday is was drizzly and cold!!!!! Nothing like the warm weather we have been enjoying in Texas!!! Yesterday and today were sunny and in the mid 50's! My allergies are going nuts since all the grass is blooming as well as the flowers and the cat in the house! :) Spooky (the cat) and I are friends though... I give him water from the b'dai (dunno how to spell it correctly...)
Keep checking back as I will try to post every day with our adventures in Germany!
My friend's mom, Teresa, and I left DFW on Thursday afternoon to fly out to Luxembourg (it is a separate country, it is not part of Germany). The flight from DFW to Zurich, Switzerland was pretty boring... just cramped in a tiny space and trying to figure out how to sleep during the 10 hours we were going to be on the plane! Then in Zurich we almost missed our flight! We found our gate rather easily and went back up stairs to look around some more and decided to go back to our gate only to find out that our plane was boarding!!!! We gave our ticket to the lady, boarded a bus and drove out to the plane and left!!! This smaller plane was much MORE comfortbale than the bigger plane that we flew over on!!!! When we got to Luxembourg we realized that Teresa's checked luggage did not arrive with mine or with us! We were told that they would call when it arrived and they would bring it to us... uh huh!!! We went home, took brief naps, then went to Spangdahlem AF base to get some stuff. Mental note to everyone reading... always carry your passport with you, or at least two forms of picture ID when attempting to get on a military base!!! I finally found a second form of picture ID... my COstco card!!! When we got home we realized that the airline had called us... so I called back and was on hold for over 30 minutes when I finally hung up! I kept trying to call back but it was busy... go figure! Then I finally got through about 15 minutes from their closing time and was put on hold again for more than 20 minutes! We just decided that we would go get the luggage ourself on Saturday!
Saturday we all woke up around noon and drove into Luxembourg to retrieve the missing luggage... woohoo!!! Now we all have fresh clothes! We went onto Bitburg AF base today! The bases are neat little communities! We grilled steak and potatoes for dinner and watched a movie. From what I saw, "The Illusionist" is a good movie. I really should watch it again so that I can see the ending!
Sunday was another relaxing day. Most places in Germany are closed on Sunday so we hung out at the house then went to Bitburg again to buy a necklace for Teresa. On the way there we saw a cute old church... when we stopped to take pictures of it we saw these wooden signs that said something on them so we followed them down this muddy trail and saw what I think is a bathhouse and a little church/prayerhouse... I will have to have Jurgen translate for me and I will let you all know what we saw when I post the pictures!
Other than our few adventures so far, it has been good. Friday is was drizzly and cold!!!!! Nothing like the warm weather we have been enjoying in Texas!!! Yesterday and today were sunny and in the mid 50's! My allergies are going nuts since all the grass is blooming as well as the flowers and the cat in the house! :) Spooky (the cat) and I are friends though... I give him water from the b'dai (dunno how to spell it correctly...)
Keep checking back as I will try to post every day with our adventures in Germany!
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