Adventures in Germany

I have been meaning to do a new post for awhile, but just never got around to it!  It's been a rather rainy May here, but we've still been able to get out and about to do some things.  There was also not two, but three long holiday weekends in May, which was really nice!  We didn't plan any big trips because Jesse didn't really know how his workload would be for his last Master's class, but we still managed to visit some new places and take some time to relax. On our first long weekend in May we visited the town of Dinkelsbühl .  It is one of three walled cities in Germany.  Its history dates back as far as the 8th century!  The traffic is a bit disruptive from the "historic" feel, but people live there and work there, so it's necessary.  We visited Rothenburg a few years ago, another one of the walled cities, and I think I prefer Rothenburg still.  Dinkelsbühl was definitely neat to see, but it was a little smaller and you couldn't go up on the

It's hard to believe that we have officially been here for one month!  Although many aspects of every day life are getting easier (finding our way around, kids are settled into school, learning my way around the grocery stores, etc); other things still seem to be challenging.  Like ordering pizza. Fail. After about 2 weeks of not-so-nice weather we finally caught a break this weekend.  We decided to check out a beautiful local place called the Brenz Park.  We were here a few years ago, but Valerie was too little for most of the playground and they have since added on.  The kids absolutely loved it.  Check out some of our pics:   There is a HUGE slide that is made to look like part of a dragon. The wooden section off to the left is were you climb up and the slide comes down the back side.  The head of the dragon is a water feature.   A rope bridge built over the Brenz river.  Valerie was somewhat slow and timid, but she did it several times.  Ian went flying across the