What an exciting night! Tonight Christian was rip sticking (skate boarding) with his friend Phillip and fell and broke his 2 front teeth. Let's start at the begining. It was a normal Sunday night, Dan was on his way to the U.S. and the kids and I were just finished up with supper. Then our neighbor, and Christian's friend Phillip, came running down to tell me Christian broke his tooth. I was thinking, not a problem, I've had this happen before. When I got down to the neighbors house, there was blood all over the ground and Christian was really upset. I got him down to the house and called my friend Debbie Rossi (whose been here for a long time) to ask where I should take him on a Sunday night. Off to the ER we went. But wait, I get all the way to Heidelberg and forgot my wallet. Thank goodness for the autobahn and I can go 200k (125mph) to get my wallet.
We finally got to the ER and he was able to walk right in. The poor guy didn't even get anything to numb him before he was hit with two shots in the top lip and one in the top of his mouth. Been there and done that (personally) and I have the t-shirt. OUCH! He was still feeling it when they were trying to clean the tooth out so he got two more shots in the top lip. They were able to glue one of his teeth back on. However, the other one was broken up to the bone in his mouth and they had to pull it out. Now it sounds like we are in for many visits to the orthodontist.
I told Christian extreme sports means extreme injuries. Thank God he is okay and resting well. May this be the only bad injury he ever has.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
OMG Christian!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Magnifica
Paige had her class trip to France before we left on our cruise. She spent 2 nights and 3 days in La Petite Pierre. She seemed to have a great time. Then we whisked her off to Venice, Italy for our 7 day cruise. We spent an afternoon and part of the next day in St. Marco square before we had to go to the port. We didn't have a lot of time there, but we did enjoy a gondola ride and some sight seeing. The kids got to climb on the back and help row. What a cool experience for the kiddos.
We boarded our ship around 3 and left for Bari, Italy. We spent the first day on the boat because the weather was so nice and the kids wanted to swim and play. Dan ended up getting his legs burnt while reading his book. Poor Dan. He also got his first massage of many. Poor Dan.
The second day we went to Olympia,Greece. We took a tour of Olympia were they held the first Olympic games. We saw the temples for Zeus and Hera. This was one of Christian's favorite stops. We had a little time for shopping too. I found I can shop all over the world, everyone speaks credit card. During our evening suppers we sat with a couple from Amsterdam. They spoke Dutch and some English. We were able to talk, but it was exhausting with all the hand gestures we used.
Day three was Izmir,Turkey formerly know as Smyrna. We visited St. John's Monastery. This was the church of St. John the apostle. What a feeling to be standing where an apostle had his church. We also got to visit the Virgin Mary's house. It's recognized as a holy place of the Christian church. Mary lived there after the death and ascension of her son, Jesus. During her life time, she had carefully tried to stay concealed leaving the apostles to present Christ. I can't even express that day in words. The whole day was amazing.
Day four was Istanbul, Turkey. Christian was sick that day so he stayed on the boat. I ended up taking him to the doctor on the boat. Strep throat. Shocking, since we have been passing it back and forth since October. We saw the Blue Mosque built in the 17Th century and a Basilica that was built in 532 AD. It was built in five years. Later it too was turned into a Mosque. We finished the tour with a visit to a carpet factory and a bizarre. Back to the boat for sun and books. That night the water was so clear on the boat that we saw dolphins swimming and jumping by our boat.
Day five on the boat all day. Massages for Dan and myself. The kids and I played cards and Dan relaxed with a book.
Our final day was in Dubrovnik. It was a very clean little town. We walked their famous wall. The sea was amazing. We only wished we had a little more time there.
Saturday we ended our trip and headed back home to Germany. All together the kids have seen 12 different countries in their short lives. Dan unfortunately had to repack at the airport and head to the far East for more business. Without him working and traveling so much we wouldn't be able to do all the wonderful things we have done so far. Thanks Dan for working so hard, and being a great husband and Dad.
Tschau, Arrivederci!
Many blessings,
Ange
Monday, April 5, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sometimes Fun Things Aren't That Fun
This is going to be short and sweet. After all the fun we had skiing it all had to come to an end. Thursday of last week I was given the news I had to have knee surgery. Nothing major just a menicus tear. Surgery was on Monday and I'm doing just fine. Dan was able to stay home with me on Monday. The only thing I was missing was a bell.
Sunday we had terrible straight line winds. It took our tramp and landed it 5 houses down from ours. I heard a lot of commotion from down stairs and Dan saw the tramp flying through the air over a swing set. It was quite a site.
The final scene of our drama is when Dan and Seth Crawford's BMWs were broken into. Seth's car was over here because it's a automatic and I could drive it. We were awoken by a police officer telling us our cars had been broken into. They took the steering wheels and the navigation sytems. I've been told this a common thing to do.
So all the fun things we have and do like skiing, our trampoline and the great BMWs we have aren't that fun when things get wrecked. What a week. I hope we don't have another one like this anytime soon. Have a great week. It's only up from here.
Monday, February 22, 2010
In Honor of the Olympics
As you can probably see we are loving our skiing. Dan and I took the kids to Garmish for a weekend ski trip. This is very close to Austria and to Cindrella's castle in Neuschwanstein. We are so lucky that we can spend so much quality time together doing something we all like. After skiing we all played in the pool. Dan was off to the saunas soon after followed by Paige. They are two in the same.
Dan had to go back to the States last week so the kids and I are by ourselves for 2weeks. Last week the kids also had a week off of school. This is due to fasching.(Karneval week) Fasching is very similar to Mardi Gras. It's also a time of breaking the rules and poking fun of government. There are many parades and costumes all around. Instead of going to the parades though the kids wanted to do more skiing. So, off we went to find another mountain to tackle. It wasn't much of a mountain though. It was more of a hill. The kids had a great time and we went through many seasons as Paige says. It was sunny when we got there, rained, snowed and rained some more.
This brings us to Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend. Our very good friend Seth Crawford went with us to Feldberg, Germany for a day of skiing. I wish I had my camera to share all the wonderful sights we saw. Sunday we stayed busy most of the day by ice skating. Christian told me he was a speed skater. Paige obviously was going to be figure skating. It's been fun exposing the kids to some of the winter sports since the Olympics are on. Now when we do our winter sports they can relate to what they see on tv.
Hope winter is coming to an end were you are. Spring brings so many new adventures for us. April Dan has planned a trip to France for us and May we are looking to hit the high seas on a Greek Cruise. Much to look forward to.
Sending all our love. Thanks for reading.
Ang
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Skiing And More Snow
To all the faithful followers of the blog sorry for the delay of writing. January has been an eventful month. We returned home from Iowa to have a delay in Heathrow airport for 7 hours. People ask if we were suppose to fly through Heathrow and the answer is yes. We were lucky that we only had to delay for 7 hours. 2 days before the whole airport was shut down due to snow.
The rest of the month we spent skiing as many weekends as we could. Thank goodness it snowed and snowed for most of the month. One weekend we went to Oberstdorf, Germany. We spent a wonderful day with friends and a couple of gluvines. This mountain was a little harder than what we skied in Serfaus, Austria. I took Paige down a black mountain sort of. Dan said it was blue...NOT. Her ski ended up falling off on the way down and she slid down the whole run screaming and snow flying. I had to laugh as we picked up the carnage on the way down. To her credit she did ski down the rest of the way with her Dad's help. She spent the rest of the day skiing on the blue hill and having a blast. One little accident didn't hold her down.
The boys had a weekend on their own last weekend. Dan,Christian and 3 other friends went skiing in Innsbruck, Austria home of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Christian said that it was probably a good idea that Paige and I didn't go. They skied hard. I kept hearing the same words from more than one person. Now that I hear stories of what happened I think it's best we didn't go. Christian was telling me how he was going off boxes and getting mad air. It was really "street". I saw some of the bruises and tired bodies during the week. Dan likes to say that a good time was had by all.
This weekend we were going to go to a local ski area but decided last minute Christian had too much of a cough to go. This did not sit well with him as you could imagine. Next weekend we are back on the slopes down in Garmisch. This is in Bavaria. Happy Valentines Day to us and Happy Valentines Day to you.