Another narrow little stair case to get up to the lookout point.
From here we drove to another town, Larochette and had a nice little lunch with some good Mushroom soup that even the kids ate and then a salad. This town has another castle in ruins as well so we went and visited that one too. This castle is from the 12 century and they have started restoring it.
From here we took my parents over to the American Military Cemetary.
For dinner we had a nice BBQ with some pork chops.
Sean got 2 movies for his b'day- Home Alone 1 and 2. The kids just laugh and laugh at these. So it was movie night again!
Monday morning Jason took my parents to the train station and they took the speed train over to Paris for the week.
I had to pick up the boys early from school today as Sean had an appt. with the orthodontist. They took an xray and impressions of his teeth and will give us a call in a week or so and see what they can do for his teeth.
I think I got a letter in the mail today that said our licenses are ready to be picked up. So I have our US license ready with the letter and the relocation lady will come and pick these up this week and we will see if we actually get them!
When Amber doesn't really like the clothes she has on for the day once we are home for the day she asks if she could put her pjs on. So I think by 4pm today Amber had hers on!
Tuesdays now I will meet Amber's friend at school before I pick up Amber and we will get Amber, go home, have lunch, the girls can play and then we will go to the gymnastics class. Amber was so excited to hear that her friend will be going to class with her now!
I had done a lot of baking and big meals while my parents were here so now we are enjoying all the leftovers and not cooking!
Wednesday we went on Amber's field trip to the park in the rain! Last week it was canceled b/c of the lighting and thunder. Today it was just raining so we went- ugh. The kids were all decked out in their rain coats, rain boots and rain pants. Amber had an extra pair of boots so one little boy borrowed those since he didn't seem to have any. Earlier in the week a little girl had to borrow Amber's extra pants when hers got wet playing outside. And then once we got back from the park a little girl had to borrow Amber's extra shirt since her sleeves were all wet from the rain.
We packed up the snacks and got on the bus to drive to the park about 10 min. or so away. The bus driver who is driving all preschoolers and chaperones goes through a red light and then a block later almost hits the car in front of him. One of the chaperones was from the administration staff and went up and had a little chat with the driver! So once at the park, the kids all have those yellow school crossing vests on, we had to take pictures of signs of spring, animals, buds, flowers, etc. Well no animals out in this rain! This is a big sprawling park with a playground and then just trails around the area.
They had a bag were they had to collect some rocks and pine cones and anything else they could find. After about an hour the teachers laid out the blankets and tarps under the trees and it wasn't raining at this point and the kids sat down and had their snack we had brought fruit, veggies, jce and some rolls. After this they were allowed to go play at the park. Well now it starts pouring so they are huddled under some trees and they called the bus to come back and pick us up. So we got back to school about 40 min. early. After we dropped all the stuff off at school Amber and I left with her friend that was coming over for a playdate.
I got a call from the orthodontist that she can arrange a retainer to help with his crossbite, push his tongue back and his front teeth. So we will go back next week and get it. She said she will make it blue for him.
The girls had a good time playing for their playdate and then we went back to school after the boys were done with RE and met up with her mom.
Sean went over to a friend's house after this, so when Jacob had guitar I drove out there and picked up Sean and made it back in time to pick Jacob up from guitar.
One of my friends is pretty much a local and bought a house here. It is a townhouse so 3 floors with maybe 5 or so bedrooms and she is having a painter come and take down some wallpaper and paint the whole interior of the house. Just to show how expensive things are here: He said it will take a month, and that is with them working M-F and the cost is 30,000 euros, so depending on the exchange rate that is about $40,000 or more! OMG! I could remodel a couple of bathrooms at home for that price!
Thursday I met my friend at the mall for coffee. She will be moving next month so we will be sorry to see them go. I couldn't stay long as I had French.
Amber's 2 friends came over for a playdate and lunch after school.
Friday Sean had a field trip today and he went to Germany for it! They visited a Villa reconstructed as it would have been in Roman times. They are studing Romans right now at school. They learned about life in the Roman villa. Sean had a good time and enjoyed it. It was about an hour away. Here the field trips are all paid for by the school ( maybe that's why tutition is so high!)
Later in the morning I went and picked up Amber a bit early from school and we drove to the train station to pick up my parents as they were coming back from their week in Paris. They loved it and had a great time. They also had great weather, it was in the 70's a few of the days. Crazy since in the summer month of June it is normally only in the 60's.
The relocation lady stopped by and picked up our licenses and the letters so we will see what happens next week.
Jason drove back from Germany today as well and we had a nice BBQ for dinner.
Saturday we had gotten up early and had breakfast and then we left and drove out to Trier, Germany. We had been there in Jan. with some friends. It is right over the border and is about 45 min. away. We got there just in time to catch the 10 am boat cruise down the Moselle river. It was packed. I was so suprised. But some tour buses had dropped people off, so I guess maybe they were a lot of tours. It was only high 50's or so, but it was sunny and the seats downstairs were all reserved so we enjoyed the top deck. You could order drinks and we saw a lot of people drinking beer at 10 am, crazy!
So it was a one hour cruise down the river. It was nice and we enjoyed it. They had a kids play area with a steering wheel and a lookout tower.
From here we walked over to the city center.
This is the Porta Nigra. It is the old Roman gateway to the city. There are a couple of Roman structures or things left that we had seen in Jan. when we did the city tour.
For lunch we found this medieval restaurant that was way downstairs and had a great atmosphere. The food was ok. It was all in German and we could only piece together certain words that were on the menu. The menu was small and maybe had 15 things at the most we could order. So we each ordered somthing different except the kids, we were able to figure theirs out.
After lunch we just walked around the area. It was very crowded and they had a farmer's market going on as well. Then Jason picked us up and we drove back home.
Jason got the grassed mowed at home.
For dinner we tried this Italian restaurant that was downtown in the city center. It was nice. We had never been before and everyone liked their food. We will put this on our good list of restaurants! We had gone down a little earlier then our reservation so we had walked around a bit, and then after dinner we walked around a bit as well.
In this picture we had been listening to a band playing in one of the squares downtown after dinner and it is almost 9pm and it is so light out!
I had another little chat with the boys and their smiles or lack of in most of my pictures, so we had to review how we are suppose to smile for the camera, ugh boys! So this one was after the chat and turned out very nice!
Good sightseeing day!
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