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Friends from home. . .

We just finished a wonderful visit from our friends Amber, Chris and Heather Johansen. Chris and Joe have been friends since they were about 5 or 6 I'm guessing, not long after we moved into Garland. Chris's mom and I have since become good friends too, and it was so nice to have a friend from home visiting. Seems like Joe and Chris only wanted to ride bikes and play around, but we are in Germany, and we had to go see some things. We visited the usual places, downtown Munich with a Mike's Bike ride tour (lots of fun and all English speaking tourists.) We went to Neuschwanstein and Schloss Linderhoff, two of crazy King Ludwig's castles. We also visited Rothenburg, the oldest surviving medieval village with the village wall still intact. In Rothenburg you can walk along the wall that surrounds the village. Entering the village on the cobblestone streets immediately transports you back in time. Once in Rothenburg we immediately visited the torture museum, thinking the boys would enjoy that, however, I think they just used the time to think of more ways to torture Amber and me on the drive back in the car. . .The most exciting part of the trip for me, after just getting to visit with Amber, was our trip to Garmisch where there is a US Airforce base with a commissary full of American food. Amber's husband is retired Army and so with her ID, we were able to get in and go shopping for American groceries. Amber said she'd never seen anything so funny as Robin, Joe and me going crazy in the grocery store. More than $250 later, we returned home with Fritos scoops, Cheetohs, poptarts, barbecue sauce, fixings for hot sauce, Doritos, Reeces Peanut Butter cups, Minute Rice, and various cans of Campbell's soup just to name a few of the items. And really. . .I should have purchased more! It was so exciting, but already the Fritos and Cheetohs are gone from the house. . .it's funny the things you take for granted. We probably really wouldn't eat that kind of stuff normally, but when you can't get it, it seems like you want it even more when it's right in front of you. Don't even get me started on the new Kentucky Fried Chicken in Munich and how many times Sam has already been there since it opened only 3 weeks ago!

All in all, it is so nice to have friends visit from home. It makes the distance seem not so far. . .we can't wait to see who will visit next!!!

posted by stuckinthemiddle @ 7:51 PM