edinburgh

so this is coming about a month late & i think i'll just let it be mostly a picture post....  jeff's sister & her family came to visit us here at our house for a few days & then we all took the train up to edinburgh for a few days.....  we had a great time!  it was freezing, but fun!

walking down the royal mile

spoon fun at dinner

museum time - best one of the 3 of them....

st giles cathedral

for my mom

for my sister

grey friar's bobby

edinburgh castle

one of the many gift shops

bagpipes!!

germany part 2...

here are more photos of the trip....

the kids

on the train to stuttgart

chasing more pigeons

brother sister lunching (the sandwiches were amazing & so easy to grab & go)

then it was onto strasbourg, france

old & gothic

such a picturesque town

ewww....

we had delicious italian in france

pile on! 

out on the flight back to england

travel with a toddler is not what one would call easy.....  

train ride back to our house

germany

so we went to germany to visit jeff's sister last month....  they had never met lena & we hadn't seen their boys in a while.  we had a lot of fun....  we had ninja starwars battles, soccer drills, ate some good food, visited stuttgart & tubingen as well as strasbourg france.  lena had fun playing with the boys, but wasn't too fond of site seeing....  lots of crying, didn't want to be in the stroller...  just wanted to run around & chase pigeons.  but despite the tantrums, it was a great visit & we're hoping to have them come visit us next month!  here are photos from the 1st part of the trip....  i'll add the rest tomorrow....

waiting for the train in harrogate

i think this was the 3rd train of the day....  

the boys

celebrating G's birthday

cheese truck!!

most amazing pretzel

"please eat this pretzel & stop crying!"

kinda worked

feeding pretzel to the birds

more feeding, um.... chasing, the pigeons

this building was built in 1442, crazy!

sweet moment with her aunt