Our Trip to Germany - final thoughts

What a great trip we had!!!

We stayed in Nendingen in an apartment right of the hiking trail, and right off the fields. It was wonderful. Alena (our oldest) went to Kindergarten for the full time we were there. What a fantastic experience. This is the second year she has attended Kindi in Germany and it is the best!!! Full emergence into German. She has been telling everyone that she has two Kindi's a German and an English one.

Besides that it has been great to go to the market twice a week, get great Bretzeln every day...We ended up going swimming every second day! The girls LOVED it. Check out the great pool in Tuttlingen here http://www.tuwass.de/0_fr_start.htm. They were so excited every time we drove to it. - I LOVE to go swimming, but also had some time by myself as I went to the Sauna at the very least once every week. The Sauna in Tuttlingen is fantastic as well. Check it out here http://www.tuwass.de/0_fr_start.htm.

I already wrote about our great trip to Berlin. We also went to the Bodensee (Lake of Constance) pretty much on a weekly basis. Another place the girls loved was the http://www.affenberg-salem.de/. Monkeys roam free, and you get popcorn to feed to the monkeys. Alena actually fed the monkeys. One piece of popcorn at a time. When the monkey wanted a second piece right away she looked at him, pointed to him and said "you have your mouth full!!!!". It was really funny :)

Bottom line about our trip it was great, and staying close to five weeks is just the perfect amount of time. Honestly so, I would like to be able to go at least twice a year. Once for a shorter period (no less than two weeks) and the other time for a longer period of time. But for now I am happy to be back in Portland :)