Springtime in Germany

We got all of our bags...no small feat loaded and arrived early in the morning in Frankfurt.

We loaded up our rental car and headed for our friends house.  Everyone was on the countdown to seeing our buddies...all happy to pull up in front of their house!  They cooked us a great lunch and we all sat outside on their deck to enjoy the nice day.

 They were wonderful hosts and kept all 11 of us well fed for our entire visit! No small feat!

 The bigger town next to them has a claim to fame of the narrowest street in the world...here Katie is right in the middle of it!

 We try real German food, pretzels everywhere, great beer and sausages!  

Charlie is in love with the YouTube videos of this crazy Scottish bike rider named Danny Macaskill.  When I looked at Danny's website I saw that he was in Zurich for the Urban Bike Festival the same weekend we were only 2 hours away in Germany, so we loaded up our rental car and headed for Zurich.

 Charlie's hero Danny is the middle guy, he signed his toy bike ramp and his hat...Charlie also says he touched his left shoulder!

 We learned that food was SUPER expensive in Zurich, luckily the festival was free, our burger lunch was more than a nice dinner out in South Africa!

 Danny getting ready for the show, setting up a jump ramp for the end.

 They did a bike high jump contest among the three riders...here is Danny going over.

Charlie checks out the pump track...

Our friends knew all of the great places to take us, here we visited the city of Tubingen where they had gone to college, it has a beautiful river and we rented paddle boats, look at the view!

Katrin and I had the little paddlers, the big kids all got a different boat and the Dads stayed at the local beer garden to sample all the brews.

Our friends also took us to a very cool old castle, what made it even cooler was that there were beer gardens at the top of the castle hike and at the bottom, tough to go wrong in Germany.  I did take some photos but can't find them yet...will try to add later!

Here is a final photo that Greg snapped, called Couch Meeting...the kids really had a ball and enjoyed each others company, so fun for everyone! We were sad to say goodbye, but happy that in a few months we can all visit again somewhere in Europe!

I am happy to report that I'm writing this post from the good old USA...we landed last night and we are all super excited to be home!  We can't wait to see all of our family and friends!  Next stop our NH place!