Last Sunday, the weather turned out better than expected so we decided to so some walking around with hopes that we'd run into a fest. It didnt take long to find one. LOL We started seeing signs for a Kinderfest (children's festival) in the next town over so we asked a few people and with much pointing a nodding we found our way to the fest.
We arrived JUST in time to see a parade. Lots of children marching down the road with their little clubs and orginizations. There were schools and preschools represented, some swimming clubs and let us not forget the all important Football (soccer) clubs. Everyone in the parade were dressed up in little costumes and pretty much every group had candy or a toy to throw out to the children standing on the sides. The boys' pockets were flooding with candy!
After the parade was finished, everyone flooded into the town square and promptly stood in line for all the food and beer you could get. There was a playground off to the side so we shuttled the boys over there to play while D. went off to locate the beer stand. :) Tons of children were playing in the playground and as children always do, language barriers never stop them from playing together. The boys had a great time.
Through the week, not much happened. We went to housing, hoping to find a house, unfortunately the jury is STILL out on that. We made two appointments to visit houses while we were there. One of the appointments was yesterday, but we were supposed to wait for an email confirmation before we could go see it. That never came. Thats ok though, I wasnt overly excited about living in a 3bedroom apartment anyway. The 2nd house is another 3 bedroom but it's a duplex and further out into the countryside - at the verge of the Black Forest. We are due to see that tomorrow afternoon. This one I'm more excited about.
We rented a car so we could easily get out to these places to see these homes. Today we decided to take a trial run out to the village of the house we're going to see tomorrow, and I'm glad we did. The exit we were supposed to take on the Autobahn (like an Interstate for the US) was closed so we got NICE and lost in the country side. HAHA! BUT, it was a good lost! We got off at the next possible exit and sure enough we see backroad type signs that pointed toward the village we were destined for. It was soooooooooo gorgeous out there!! Farm houses, country settings, TINY little roads LOL. I just enjoyed all of it. I tried to take pictures while we were on the road. They didnt turn out the best but there are a few below of some of the buildings.
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This here is a HUGE farmhouse we saw on the side of the road:
And these are the signs that were posted outside of it. They had eggs, onions and potatoes.
Here is a road up into one of the little towns we came upon (I dont remember the name to be honest, Mirklinger? maybe)
And some pretty little houses along the side of the road
OH! and I almost forgot, before we took this little road trip, we had to take the dog out of the hotel for about an hour so they could paint some things in the room. We took Copper and the boys over to a playground on base. They had a good time and I was able to snap a few pictures of them. :)
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