Tuesday Night

It's another Tuesday night in Germany. I just got home, threw some clothes in the washer, sat down to eat and thought I would post a blog while I wait for my clothes.

We spent the weekend in a local town, Wurtzburg. It is another neat little German Town. We toured the Bishop's Quarterly - a nice large palace. He was a Prince Bishop, that is a Bishop who is made a prince by the Pope. It was bombed during WWII and then caught on fire. It was restored in the 1950s but suffered a lot of water damage and then mold.

It was amazing. Afterwards we drove up to another large castle on the opposite hill. There we toured the chapel and the dungeon both which dated back to the 8th Century.

Today I worked on two different projects, one was planning our de-mob. It's hard to believe we starting to work on coming home.

Ok, I'm going to call Vince. Talk to you later.
Marcia

Spain

Hi
It's Tuesday night. We had a four day training holiday the last four days so we went to Spain. Europe has a lot of low cost airlines so we got round trip tickets from here to Spain for $60. Not bad. It was very easy to get around so we plan to use this system to travel around in the Spring.

We arrived Friday night and we spent Saturday and Sunday checking out a number of Churches, parks, Museums and shops. I made another video so take a look.

Me

The Family Trip

I was going to try to write about each day, but it will take to long. Soooo I took all the photos and made a video. I'm going to up load it and see what happens. I hope this works.

I spent yesterday in a little town about an hour from here called Trier. It was very interesting. It is filled with Roman Ruins - how cool is that. In fact, it has the largest intact Roman Ruins (I know but that is what the book says) North of the Alps.

After walking around all day we drove over to Luxembourg for dinner. We had dinner in a little cafe off the center of the city and then drove home. The weather was great and the trip was fantastic. I'll post photos later.

Ok, let's see if the video works.

Going...Going...Gone

Friday – We got to the terminal around 9am, all the flights were canceled. We were told there might be a roll call for a late flight so we stayed and waited. No such luck. 6 hours in the airport and no flight.

It’s Saturday morning and the whole family is sitting in the airport trying to get a flight home. Vince, the kids and my parents used Space-A to travel over here. Space-A is a space available service the military has for families and service members. The pros – are safe flights and very cheap. The cons – are we wait and hope for a seat. Kaite and Parker are playing here in the terminal and Cather is doing a crossword puzzle. Vince and my father are pacing. There were 2 flights yesterday, but they were canceled at the last minute. There were 3 flights today. One was already canceled and the second one only had 24 seats. It just filled up without us. The third flight has seats, we just do not know how many. One person said 225 and another said only 56. I guess we will see we heard there is another flight tomorrow.

I decided to kill time by updating my blog.

There were 3 seats when our name was called, but we needed four seats so - no seats for us, but there was a flight to New York so my parents took that flight. They left around noon. The rest of us spent 9 hours in the terminal then went back to get a hotel room. 9 hours in the airport and one flight. 2 members of our party homeward bound and 4 still waiting to go.

Sunday. There were 2 flights to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington DC and one to Baltimore so Vince got out today. They pulled chocks at 1300 and they were wheels up 30 minutes later. I watched the air plane get smaller and smaller as my tears got bigger and bigger. It felt strange to have them here and now it feels even more odd not to have them here. But I will adjust and get back into the swing of things. Trust me, I have a ton of projects sitting on my desk at work.

Vince really is amazing. I watched him walk across the flight line with three kids, four carry on-bags and off they went. I would have been pulling my hair out. I guess I need to learn to relax.

I’ll wrap up the two weeks and post pictures.