A walk in the park...err Dietenhofen.

Yesterday was AMAZING. At one point it got up to 76* (I was in the car) and was suppose to reach 81*. Since Brian is away for the week at Graf the girls and I are free to roam about town looking for trouble. Trouble is what we found! One duck fight, one hissing swan and multiple times shouting "Ginger, DO NOT EAT THAT!!"...overall it was a great day!

Fall has arrived!


Happy Ducks eating...except the two males in the upper left corner of the photo...not happy campers. These two went at it for a solid 2 minutes. Finally the weaker one got away and just kept swimming. Poor little guy.






Ginger went for a swim...several times today. She didn't even give me a chance to take her leash off.


I'm FREE...Ginger...always pushing the limits of her freedom. (She walks off leash 90% of the time.


So MANY field mice...so little time


Always hunting...always.




Ginger making friends...always making friends. She will befriend anyone and anything who has food or is willing to rub her belly.


Kyla getting hissed at. What you don't see in this photo is about 2 seconds after I took it Kyla got scared, fell off the rock and almost landed in the water. Classic.


Our town church.


Yumm...dinner. Nürnbergers and Kraut! YUM.

Oktoberfest 2.0

You can click on highlighted words for links to more infomation on the tents and other Oktoberfest facts.

This past weekend we headed down to Munich for Oktoberfest 2.0. Another pilot in Brian's company had gotten reserved seats in the world famous Hofbräu Festhalle. With seating for 6,900 people inside and another 3,100 outside, this tent was a busy place! Lucky for us, reserved seating is much more relaxed and calm than fighting for your life and seat in the center of the fest tent. It's a little more like a normal restaurant...well as normal as Oktoberfest can be! Our reservations were from 11am to 5pm - we arrived early which gave us a little time to shop around and try out the new camera.


A side note: Last weekend we were in the Armbrustschützen known as the Bull's Eye! Smaller than the Hofbraeu tent the Bull's Eye seats 5,800 on the inside and 1,600 on the outside. The upside to being in the Bull's Eye is they serve Paulaner beer. I'm not a big beer fan - but I would have to say so far - Paulaner is my favorite!


Our crew for the day:


Some people get really excited about Oktoberfest!


The Budweiser horses don't have anything on these guys!


Brian with the Paulaner Wagon:

In Poland...drinking is a team sport:


My FAVORITE thing about fests: fruit on a stick covered in chocolate!


Some of the other tents:


The Löwenbräu lion roars and moves his tail every few minutes!







No one says 'Auf Wiedersehen!' in Bavaria! Tschüss!!

New Shoes...

Not for me this time...but the Volvo! It's getting to be that time of year when we had to put winter tires on the Volvo. We looked at tires tires and more tires and had just about found some that would work that were a good price (shipping is a big deal!) when we found a set locally that had some fancy 17s included. I've always hated the wheels on the Volvo. They are hard to clean and I just plain didn't like them. So Saturday Brian went to the shop/garage on Post and put new tires on! Woohoo! We're ready for winter now :)

Before new wheels and tires:


After new wheels and tires:

New Camera!

We're back in business ladies and gentlemen! We got our new camera in the mail today. Here are a few test shots of the kids!

Red dog:


Yellow dog:

Oktoberfest - Munich, Germany

There is one and only Oktoberfest. It happens once a year in Munich, Germany and this year - we couldn't skip out!

We had a great group that went with us - I think total we may have seen/hung out with 30 or so people that we knew from Ansbach. We also met 2 couples from Poland who were a blast and spoke very little English - after a few beers, it didn't matter.

We didn't have our camera with us (new one in the mail!!) so I will have to wait till I get all the photos from our friends Kennedy and Bredan Fergus. You have to get there early to get a seat - we were there just after 9am and still not all of us were able to sit at the same table or even close to each other - and you have to be sitting in a seat - at a table to get served. (Beer or food!)

Here are a few and I'll post the rest at some point!

WELCOME TO OKTOBERFEST!


Kennedy, Pam and Nicole - on the train from our hotel in Munich to downtown!


It's 9AM! Brian and Nicole.



Pretzels are yummy!



Front row: Pam, Nicole and Josh
Back row: Brendan and Brian

Visting Brian.

I missed Saturday - but whos counting? Right? I was very lucky yesterday to have a good friend of mine from high school, David Losh (or just Losh as he is often refered to as) come visit. He's been in Berlin for the past week working and decided to drive down for a visit yesterday. Losh and I hit up Nürnberg (Nuremberg) for the day - he got to experience the 'Nürnberger' sandwich (3 sausages on a piece of brot or roll) and we had beer in a local beer garden. After looking for the car for a solid hour and a half - thanks to Betty - our GPS - we decided to hit up a local sushi place for dinner. We spent the evening looking at wedding photos of Brian and I and talking about wedding stuff (Losh is getting married next year).

Losh headed back to Berlin this morning and it was great having our THIRD visitor since we moved here!!! I headed off to Grafenwoehr to visit Brian on medevac duty. He's out there this week with my good friend Kennedy's husband, so Kennedy, her two daughters, Brighid and Keara, and our dogs headed for Graf. It was a pretty low key day. The girls all headed to the Graf PX for a little shopping and taco bell for the boys while they did some medevac training with the Germans.

I'm ready for Tuesday to come and Brian will be home again for I think a whole 2 weeks! Woohoo!

Isabella Sharp turns TWO!

I just got some photos from Momma Judy of our niece, Isabella celebrating her 2nd birthday!

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