Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Time with Horst and Thea in beautiful Southern Germany

Things have changed a lot since I was last in Germany 9 years ago.  The East is open and all over Germany you see wind and solar farms on the hills.  Driving from Nuremberg to Ulm and then to Aitrach/Mooshausen where Horst now has his business was a real pleasure.  It gets greener the farther South you drive.  The little town where Thea grew up is now their home.  It's the most peaceful community with a beautiful little church right in the center of town.  I could hear the bells ringing at 6AM and walking around the streets on the edge of the Iller River, I thought places like this didn't exist anymore but they do.....

Wild flowers, baby ducks,storks, mountains, snow, wonderful food and of course all kinds of ice cream. That's how we spent our 8 days in the foothills of the Alps.  Horst took us into Austria onto one of the mountain passes where we got to throw snowballs.  We won't be doing that for a while again unless we drive to Flagstaff.

Some of the best pictures of our time with Horst and Thea:

























Mommy and baby

The best ice cream


The Spiess walk

Solar farms everywhere


Kisslegg

Wangen

Wangen

Art's favorite restaurant in Wangen

Pig hearder in Wangen


Got a few extra skateboards?




for my friends at CCAD

beautiful!!

Thea's daughters farm house







Kiwi becher

Josefa's got some competition

Little girls on their way to school

Bad Waldsee and cafe



I'm in heaven


Bad Waldsee church


First pole dancer

Dinner on the last day


Bird houses for Thea

Now concentrate on that goodness

Weingarten

Love this fountain in Waldsee


Thea's house




Telling time the old fashioned way


Artur really misses this....