We stayed at a great B&B in Ingelheim that was also a winery and they had the best wine!
We love our new camera, a Nikon D40! And look how pretty the flowers are in Germany!
And let's just say the food, especially the white asparagus, was absolutely amazing!!! My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Never had a bad meal in Germany.
Topped off a great first night with a shot of schnapps!
After hiking all the way up! Afterwards, we went to the castle below and watched a demonstration on falconry...pretty fascinating.
At the Schloss Castle in Heidelberg...so pretty!!!
Hubs being hubs and "drinking" out of the castle's ginormous wine barrel.
After a nice cable car ride and a bit of a hike. The Alps are oh so beautimous. We could've sat here all day.
That is Garmisch below us...and a 17 million Euro ski jump built for the 2011 world championships. Oh and a pretty hot couple! ;)
The cutest restaurant in Bavaria...and to give you an idea of the style of the architecture. This is one area where I will say America could learn a lesson or two. I do love pretty buildings.
In front of the prettiest church in the whole world...Ettal Abbey. It quite literally took my breath away.
After a nice cable car ride and a bit of a hike. The Alps are oh so beautimous. We could've sat here all day.
That is Garmisch below us...and a 17 million Euro ski jump built for the 2011 world championships. Oh and a pretty hot couple! ;)
The cutest restaurant in Bavaria...and to give you an idea of the style of the architecture. This is one area where I will say America could learn a lesson or two. I do love pretty buildings.
In front of the prettiest church in the whole world...Ettal Abbey. It quite literally took my breath away.
Off to take a carriage ride tour through Saltzburg, Austria! My favorite kind of tour! We saw Mozart's home and the house where they filmed Sound of Music. :)
At Linderhof Castle outside of Garmisch in Bavaria...King Ludwig II's summer home.
And more exciting news from the trip...my Brother-in-law proposed to his girlfriend at Linderhof!
If you go to Germany and don't go on a Rodelbahn, you are seriously missing out. This was what hubs looked forward to for the entire trip and the whole time I was thinking 'Really?! You want to go down a stupid slide?!' I was eating my words by the first turn on this amazing invention. I felt like I was 5 again! Oh and this is the last turn of the Rodelbahn...I was going so fast I flew through the "Caution! Stop!" sign and almost went right back up haha. 
The Glockenspiel in Munich!
Another thing you can't miss out on if you go to Germany...the Hofbrauhaus!Auf Wiedersehen Germany!
We returned to sunny Florida just after midnight on May 17th, our anniversary. Not just any anniversary, our first anniversary! What was the first thing we did?? We picked up Mabry from Grandma and Grandpa S's house!! It totally made the day! What can I say we love our dog!
And do you see what an amazing quality this picture is (along with all of the Germany pictures)?! Well, that's our anniversary present to each other, a Nikon D4o! We love it! We had the nicest of anniversaries. Spent the morning relaxing and uploading pictures then we had an amazing lunch at Acropolis where I ordered my favorite, Athenian Grouper. Did a little window shopping at a cute shop next door to Acropolis and came home to relax again. For dinner, hubs and I decided we wanted to go back to where it all began a year ago, the Rusty Pelican.
See that really amazingly beautiful necklace around my neck? That's the additional anniversary gift that hubs surprised me with! (We had agreed to just get the camera, but he's sneaky like that. I won't complain.) After a year of marriage, I can just say that I am really, truly proud of us. Not to brag, but I think we are quite a couple. We made our way over a few speed bumps and quite a bit of hurdles in our first year of marriage, but we made it. And most importantly, we are more in love than ever. This last year has taught us a lot and I wouldn't change a thing. Hubs is the man of my dreams, he makes me smile everyday, and he is my absolute very best friend. Let's waste a lot more time chasing cars baby!
What else? Well, not a whole lot to be honest. The "chill" days of summer are here. My summer is a little more uneventful than I had hoped...at least in the employment field. I had hoped to clerk with the same firm I clerked with last summer, but Mr. Obama's oh-so-wonderful policies haven't actually created any jobs yet...more like they have made the legal world come to a standstill. When you hear about partners getting laid off from large law firms, it's not a really good sign. Let's just hope the job market is looking a lot better this time next year. However, I am not very confident that we will have Obama to thank if it is, given his crap he has been pulling lately. "You want to do what?! Oh you want to give the government new powers to seize key companies?!?!" Oh yeah, that's really going to stimulate the economy and encourage companies to create new jobs. What a joke. Come on, you knew I had to add my two cents on politics!
Oh and one more announcement...I have decided to get my real estate license. In my spare time, I have gone out with my mom and showed some properties with her to clients and have discovered that I really enjoy it. So, I figure I have the rest of the summer...why not get my real estate license?! I figure I can do a little real estate on the side of law school because you know me, I like to see how busy I can keep myself! And a little extra money on the side will be nice! And with all of the incentives out there right now for buyers, I might as well jump in now to help them out! I sure wish hubs and I could've gotten the $8k tax incentive and the $10k in bond money that's out there for first-time home buyers!!! And just to think, there is talk of that $8k tax incentive going up to $15k!!! That's a lot of free money!
Until next time! I'll leave you with a picture from our anniversary at the gazebo at the Rusty Pelican where we exchanged our vows on 5-17-08!
And do you see what an amazing quality this picture is (along with all of the Germany pictures)?! Well, that's our anniversary present to each other, a Nikon D4o! We love it! We had the nicest of anniversaries. Spent the morning relaxing and uploading pictures then we had an amazing lunch at Acropolis where I ordered my favorite, Athenian Grouper. Did a little window shopping at a cute shop next door to Acropolis and came home to relax again. For dinner, hubs and I decided we wanted to go back to where it all began a year ago, the Rusty Pelican.
See that really amazingly beautiful necklace around my neck? That's the additional anniversary gift that hubs surprised me with! (We had agreed to just get the camera, but he's sneaky like that. I won't complain.) After a year of marriage, I can just say that I am really, truly proud of us. Not to brag, but I think we are quite a couple. We made our way over a few speed bumps and quite a bit of hurdles in our first year of marriage, but we made it. And most importantly, we are more in love than ever. This last year has taught us a lot and I wouldn't change a thing. Hubs is the man of my dreams, he makes me smile everyday, and he is my absolute very best friend. Let's waste a lot more time chasing cars baby!What else? Well, not a whole lot to be honest. The "chill" days of summer are here. My summer is a little more uneventful than I had hoped...at least in the employment field. I had hoped to clerk with the same firm I clerked with last summer, but Mr. Obama's oh-so-wonderful policies haven't actually created any jobs yet...more like they have made the legal world come to a standstill. When you hear about partners getting laid off from large law firms, it's not a really good sign. Let's just hope the job market is looking a lot better this time next year. However, I am not very confident that we will have Obama to thank if it is, given his crap he has been pulling lately. "You want to do what?! Oh you want to give the government new powers to seize key companies?!?!" Oh yeah, that's really going to stimulate the economy and encourage companies to create new jobs. What a joke. Come on, you knew I had to add my two cents on politics!
Oh and one more announcement...I have decided to get my real estate license. In my spare time, I have gone out with my mom and showed some properties with her to clients and have discovered that I really enjoy it. So, I figure I have the rest of the summer...why not get my real estate license?! I figure I can do a little real estate on the side of law school because you know me, I like to see how busy I can keep myself! And a little extra money on the side will be nice! And with all of the incentives out there right now for buyers, I might as well jump in now to help them out! I sure wish hubs and I could've gotten the $8k tax incentive and the $10k in bond money that's out there for first-time home buyers!!! And just to think, there is talk of that $8k tax incentive going up to $15k!!! That's a lot of free money!
Until next time! I'll leave you with a picture from our anniversary at the gazebo at the Rusty Pelican where we exchanged our vows on 5-17-08!
Hey there! Looks like you guys had a great time in Germany. :) You know, we lived there for 2.5 years and STILL never did the Rodelbahn! I keep telling my husband that we have to go back just to do that. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteAlso? I love the Rusty Pelican. So cool that you got married there!