I've tried updating a couple of times but when your life is pretty boring what do you say after all the Europe post?!? I vacuumed, mopped, did the wash...that's not very exciting. There have been some exciting moments...Heather and Ben having their baby, birthday parties, Shannon and Rusty having a baby, and it is the holiday season. We've had a couple of dr. visits (everything is good). The most interesting of the visits was finding out Andrew's allergic to grass. Andrew's got one more dr appointment and then I think we are done with dr until March! (I hope.) Andrew went on a business trip after we got back, I went to B-ham with Linda to watch Noah and Eli while Bryan and Lisa went to a concert with Ben and Natalie (ya'll have my permission to do that again! Love those boys! :D) Linda and I went to see New Moon...twice! That was awesome! Mom has been in town a couple of times. And she will be here next weekend. Messiah concert is the 13th so we've been busy with that. Then we are going to mom's, then it's Christmas and New Years. Other than everyday life not a lot has been going on with us. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. (The picture is of Heather and Ben's cute little girl Alli!)

Friday Andrew and I spent the morning relaxing. Rebecca came over and we went into Furth (the city that she lives in) to meet up with my aunt and two other cousins. We had dinner in the old part of town. And as it was throughout Germany, the food was AMAZING! Any weight I lost in England I got back in Germany. It was nice to be with family and meet Sarah for the first time. Friday was a very nice and relaxing day.

Saturday Rebecca took us to Nuremberg to see the sites. We had already seen the place where the Nuremberg Trials were held and this day we went into the old part of Nuremberg. There was this one church (pictured) that at noon everyday the clock tower had figures moving around. Andrew has a video of it that he will post one of these days. We will let you know when we have the rest of the pictures posted. Nuremberg, like Furth, is a very beautiful city.

Later that afternoon Rebecca took us, by subway, to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye but we were both ready to come home. The flight to Zurich wasn't bad, but we had a 11.5 hour layover. The good part about that is the airport has what they call day rooms, a hotel inside the airport. It was comfortable too!

We got up the next day to fly to Manchester. Switched carriers, and flew to Atlanta. That flight was pretty good, long, but good. Once in Atlanta we found out that our plane was delayed about an hour. Not too bad but we were ready to be home after 9 hours on the plane.

After landing in Nashville, Linda picked us up and brought us home. The first thing we realized was that our house was so much bigger than we remembered it being after spending two weeks in hotel rooms and a German apartment. To give you an idea how small the apartment was; our master bedroom is about the same size as Sali's sister's living room!!!

By the time we went to bed last night was had been up a little over 24 hours. We both still have jet lag...but we are pushing ourselves to readjust to the real world just like we pushed ourselves to adjust to vacation life. :)

Now I'm having to readjust to having a keyboard to type on instead of a laptop keyboard.

We had a wonderful day with Sali and Rebecca in Prague! What a BEAUTIFUL city. We have a lot of pictures for this city too. We even have two videos of this guy playing Bach on an accordion. It was crazy but he was really good. Andrew, of course, knows the names of the songs, so you will have to ask him. It was three hours to Prague, and we thank Sali for driving us there and back. We walked around for a while after having a hard time trying for find the right spot to get started at. Everything that everyone has said about how beautiful Prague is is so true. It was so nice.

Tomorrow is a relaxing day for us. We are staying at the apartment most of the day. My Aunt Rose and cousins Trisha and Sarah are coming over to visit. Then if we are up to it we are going to go around Nuremberg to see what there is to see.

Saturday we will spend packing and getting ready to leave. Then we have 1.5 days of flying to do.

I can't wait for us to get home so we can post all of the pictures that we haven't been able to yet. Of course, I don't want to leave either. There is so much more to see and do. And the time to spend with my family while I'm here. The picture is one from the net and is of Prague.

I wonder if I'll remember how to drive when I get home...it's been so long. :)

Andrew and I just spent two wonderful days in Berlin. There was so much to do and see, I'm surprised that we got in all that we did. There really is only two ways to see Berlin, one: going on the bus tours or two: having someone know where stuff is to take you there. The two days run together so I really couldn't tell you what we saw on what day without the pictures. Andrew did show me some of the places he lived and ate at while he was in Berlin on his mission. We even saw one of the churches that he went to on one of his transfers. That was cool. It was hot and sticky the two days we were there. I don't think that it would have been so bad if we were not carrying our backpacks all over the place. The first day we went to one of the cathedrals. Not knowing that we could, we started in the crypt and worked our way up to the bottom part of the dome. There were so many stairs and some were tight spirals. We were pretty much done after that. The cathedral that we walked up is the one pictured.

We stayed at another Crown Plaza and it was way better than the one in England. Because we had a lower rate room we had our own beds again but the room was so much nicer that I really didn't mind this time.

Later today we are off to Prague. Today it is going to be hot again but I wont have my backpack. Andrew will have his though, but without as much stuff in it.

Today we took a 3 hour car ride to Neuschvanstein Castle. It was a beautiful ride to the castle. Once we were there and got our tickets we had to wait an hour before we could go up and take the tour. You go through floors one, three, and four. Two was never finished and now has a gift shop on it. Everyroom was beyond beautiful and all different.

We werent allowed to take pictures inside and so all of our pictures are from outside. But there are around 75 or them. We went to the bridge to get the best pictures of it, and wouldnt you know that its covered with scaffolding to work on that side of it. The picture is the castle that I got from the net.

Andrew is working on all the pictures and when we get home all he will have to do is upload them and lable them. There is no way to upload them while we are here.

Tomorrow we are off to Berlin. We will be there two days. Watch Andrew's twitter and facebook to find out what we are doing. Might not blog again until Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

Ok lets see if I can type this without typos. The z and the y are switched on the German keyboard. And a couple of of other keys are also different. It's been a pain. GRR!

Okay, Thursday was the same as Monday - Wednesday that I posted in the last blog. So not really much to report there.

Friday we had to change hotels. I don't really remember the reason why but we did. So the things we didn't like about the Marriot we liked about the Crown Plaza. The things that we liked about the Marriot we hated in the Crown Plaza. The food was way better at the Crown Plaza...but I still don't really have an appetite. Andrew's is getting better but mine is not. Now in the Marriot we had a king size bed; in the Crown Plaza it was like walking into a 50's sitcom. There were two SINGLE BEDS!!! Hello!?! It was crazy. But we only had two nights there and it was not so bad.

Saturday we went up to Edinbrough. It was AWESOME!!!! Andrew took almost 300 picutes. Some of them will be connected together to make panoramas but there are still a lot of singles. A lot from the train ride of the Scottish country side. We got up around 430 in the morning and didnt get back until around 8pm. We walked everywhere! It was great!

Today we have been traveling from Manchester to Zurich to Germany!! The flights went well. The first just around 2 hours and the second around an hour. Not bad. We are staying at Sali's sister's place. She is on vacation for the week and said we could use it while she was gone. Its a nice appartment. After Rebecca picked us up from the airport we came to the house. We had pizza for dinner, we were just too tired to do much of anything else. Tonight we are alone, the stores are closed here on Sunday and Sali and Rebecca were not able to get an air bed so tomorrow they are going to get one and spend the rest of the week with us, I think.

Well, I am going to go and get ready for bed. Tomorrow we are off to the castle. Lots of pictures to come once we are home. You all will have to just wait until then. The picture is of a room with single beds. Its not ours, Andrew will post ours when we get home, but this is about what it looked like.

Andrew is here to work and had to work Monday through Thursday.

Monday I roamed the halls of the hotel to see what I can find. There is a pool here and a workout room and the spa. They also have a lot of courtyards here too but there is nowhere to sit so I've not gone outside to just hang out. We have a nice view of one of the courtyards from our room.

Tuesday I went to the spa. It was so nice. I had a Stress Therapy Massage, Reflexology, and a Indian Head Massage. I was there for about 2.5 hours. Very awesome.

Today I don't have anything planned to do. Might go for a walk later. Andrew and I seem to still not have an appetite. Not sure what that is all about. The only meal either of us seem to eat is lunch. For example, yesterday I had two pieces of toast for breakfast, lunch was a salad, and dinner was a slice of cake. Seriously. And I'm not hungry at all. I only had toast this morning and salad again for lunch. I didn't have lunch until about 1:30. I wonder if it is the traveling or just England. We will have to see how our appetites are in Germany.

Something that I forgot in my earlier post...when we were on the train there was this man sitting behind us. Which was fine until he leaned forward. I don't think he had taken a bath in a while. It was gross. And he wasn't the only person that we encountered like that. Eww.

Andrew has gotten the pictures mostly finished, but has to still post them. I'll try and get him to do it tonight. After getting all the panoramas together he is down to like 50 pictures.

To let you all know what is coming up...Thursday is a repeat of today, Friday we have to change hotels, Saturday is totally devoted to Edinburgh. Sunday we fly out to Germany.

I will try and blog on Friday. Saturday we are leaving early and returning late so I don't think I will be able to blog until Monday after flying all day Sunday. Won't blog until Monday late because we are going to the castle. :)

The picture is of Tower Bridge. It's not one of ours but we do have a picture of it. Had to use some other picture because Andrew isn't here to give me ours. They are on his computer.