April 4, 2012
Another week has passed and I am definitely feeling more
confident and secure in my decision to come here. Last week Dave was gone for
two nights. He went to the Czech Republic for work. On Wednesday I decided to
take the kids on our own little adventure. We drove two hours away to a village
called Triberg. Triberg has the world’s largest cuckoo clock, but we went there
to see Germany’s highest waterfall! Triberg is in the middle of the black
forest (schwarzwald). The kids and I hiked up the waterfall, and had a picnic. Hiking with three kids is pretty scary! They did great and we all enjoyed ourselves.
On the way home we ran into some stau (traffic jam), and we
were rerouted by our GPS several times. I swear we were 20 minutes away from home
for an hour,
due to traffic, construction, and the Garmin rerouting us! Our two-hour drive
home turned into three.
On Saturday we went to the oldest town in Germany. Trier was
founded in 17 BC, and has a gate that was built in 180 AD, the Porta Nigra. (Pictures coming soon!) This city was beautiful with fresh flowers for sale along the street, small
shops, old buildings; I was in love J We went to Trier with
Dave’s co-worker and his family.
On Sunday Emma came down with the stomach flu… yuck! Poor
girl… puked in the Audi!!! (or should I say poor Dave?) When someone is sick
there are a few things they generally want:
Mom
Dad
And home.
This event made her incredibility homesick. My heart broke
for her. I couldn’t bring her back home, I didn’t have Campbell’s chicken
noodle soup, and I couldn’t make her body heal fast enough. I held her, napped
with her, and tried to comfort her the best I could. Fortunately things are looking
better today, and she is feeling better.
