August 15, 2015

We have just finished up a really great visit with some of our friends from back in our Ft. Bragg Army days.  Caryn and Roy were nice enough to let us invade their house and stay for a few days this week.  Hayden had the best time playing with Matt and Lauren while Adam and I were very thankful for adult conversation, a real bed, and a washer/dryer!  🙂

Our first stop when we got there was to visit the PX to replace our broken camera.  (THANK YOU!!!)  We found one that works great, so we’re back up and running.  We had an amazing steak dinner (forgot how much I missed steak and potatoes!) and sat up talking late into the night.

The next day, we had a great time going to a castle where the kids got to run around and play for a while.  The castle was pretty cool, but they were more interested in the playground than anything else!  As you can see in the pictures, they were pretty hyped up!

The castle had a pretty neat fossil exhibil (although it was getting ready to close, so we only had a minute or two).  I’m not really sure what’s going on with Hayden’s face in this picture, but they were having fun being eaten by the huge shark.

On our last day before heading out, we went to an awesome park with a huge playground.  By luck, they had a traveling Lego exhibit while we were there, so you can probably guess that Hayden and Adam were pretty happy!  🙂  It was actually really cool…they had some great models set up that showed different parts of Germany and lots of other Lego displays.

Hayden and Lauren rode scooters around the park and even did a little riding around in the skate park.  This was only the second time that Hayden has ridden a scooter, but he’s slowly getting the hang of it.  I think it’s a little harder for him with his balance issues, but he has fun with it.  He has already added a scooter to his Christmas list for this year.  🙂

After the skate park, we kept walking and went to the playground section of the park…holy cow…talk about an awesome park.  There were several large play areas with all different levels of activities to play on.  The slides were super tall (and really fast).  There was also a rope bridge that Hayden said was “terrifying”.  lol

All around the park are dinosaur statues, so we couldn’t resist an attack picture.  Luckily, Hayden survived, but Adam wasn’t as lucky.

I’m sorry to be leaving because we have had a great time hanging out and getting to catch up with our friends.  By chance, they are going to be in London at the same time as us, so the kids are already planning to go to the Harry Potter tour together.  From here, we are going to Heidelberg, then on to Rothenberg as we work our way south through Germany.