On the way home from Frankfurt we decided to take a slight detour in the old city of Heidelberg to see the old town square Christmas markets. Here is Oliver showing great interest in all the grilled hotdogs and sausages. The...
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You’ve heard of the Last Temptation of Christ? What about the Last Temptation of the Follower of Christ? Temple in one direction, cigarette machine in the other. Whatcha gonna do? Actually, adding further coolness to the...
We went on another trip to the Frankfurt Temple. This time we stopped off in Nuremberg on the way there to see the huge Christmas market. Unfortunately the weather was not great, with cold rain/snow coming down on us. But it...
I know everyone wants more pics of Marion, but as we are trying to adjust to our new life with three kids, I am afraid we haven’t taken many pictures, let alone found time to put them up on the internet! So here is an old...
In August we went on a trip to the Frankfurt Temple with the whole Vienna Stake. This was our first stake temple trip, and it was a really neat experience for our whole family. It was also fun to have other people from the ward...
Day 2 begins with more pastries. This time it was “Tiroler Art”. Tirol is a section of Austria, and it’s funny that the Germans did a better job making the Tirolian pastry than we have ever had in Austria…...
Our nieces Amy and Amanda are here for a visit for the next few weeks. We are so excited to be able to show them around some of our favorite places! They flew into Frankfurt last week, so we took the train up and showed them...
We got a great last minute deal on a rental car, so we decided to take a quick tour to the “real” Christkindlesmarkt in the Bavarian region of Germany. Salzburg, in Austria, is practically part of Bavaria, and on the...
Oktoberfest! We drove into Munich, but parked near an Ubahn (subway) stop far away from the festival to avoid traffic and crowds. We never had to wonder which way to go on the train to get to the festival because we just followed...
The ICE (inter city express), high speed bullet train is the train we took to and from Frankfurt for our recent trip. It was a long ride from Vienna to Frankfurt with about 10 two stops in between over the course of 7 hours. Most...