Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I'm not sure how I missed writing the Amsterdam post, but I did! This should be the last post from 2013, unless I find another missed 2013 adventure that I didn't post. The trip to Amsterdam was our first trip with Explore Europe Travel, even though it wasn't called Explore Europe Travel back then (they just recently changed their name). Explore Europe Travel is what they're called now, so it's...

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Zugsptize, Germany

In January 2014, Drew and I headed down to Garmisch to go skiing! It was my first time skiing. I've gone snowboarding before, the first time I was pretty good at it, but the second time, not so great. After our day on the slopes, we decided to head up to the tallest point in Germany, the Zugspitze. The Zugspitze is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains as well as the highest mountain in...

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Pumpkin Carving 2015

Every year since Drew and I have been married, we pick up some pumpkins and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas and carve pumpkins! It's our yearly tradition, that we hope to one day pass along to our children.  This year was no different. After a nice weekend down in Garmisch, we ended the weekend by clearing off the dinning room table, covered it and started carving pumpkins. This year Drew...

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Ghent, Belgium

On our way back to Brussels from Brugges, we stopped off in Ghent. Rick Steves suggests stopping off in Ghent if you're making the trip out to Brugges. Since we got a late start, we decided to head to Brugges first and stop off in Ghent on the way back since it didn't look like there was much to do and it's only 30 minutes away from Brussels. During the Middle Ages, it was one of the richest and...

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Bruges, Belgium

After our exciting day in Luxembourg, then checking out the night life in Brussels, we headed off to Bruges. Funny story, we didn't set an alarm clock because Rylie always wakes Drew up by 9am on the weekends, this time, she didn't even bother to wake us up. I woke us up because I had to pee! Guess we wore her out the day before. After eating our sandwiches (we picked up groceries before heading...

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Antik und Trodel

Up the road from us in the town on Kulmain, there is an antique store that everyone loves. I've heard such great things about it. Before Drew left to play Army all summer we checked it out and he even picked up a Luxembourg Beer stein. Over the summer I spent a lot of time at the store getting to know the owner Udo and purchasing little knickknacks. Drew's been looking for a bar for quite some time...

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GermnayJa!

Starting on October 26, I will have some of my blog posts featured on GermanyJa.com!  What is GermanyJa you ask? Its a place for people like me (American's living in Germany, both associated with the military and those who aren't) to go to to find out information not just about travelling (but that's where I come in), but about where to eat, things going on in their areas (there are 16 states...

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Luxembourg American Military Cemetery & Memorial

Every month big Army gives the soldiers a 4-day weekend, usually they encourage travelling. Drew was supposed to be off playing Army in October, so we didn't make any plans to go anywhere. Of course, nothing is for sure in the Army, at the beginning of the week, Drew told me he wasn't going to be training so we could go somewhere if we wanted to. Since I had already taken Friday off we started planning...

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Neustadt am Kulm Almabtrieb, Bavaria

About 5 minutes away is the town of Neustadt Am Kulm. It is a cute little village, that I drive through every morning to get it to work, that has it's very own traffic light! Those are very rare in the rural area of Bavaria where we live. When we first got here and I didn't know how to pronounce the town names, I gave them nicknames and called Neustadt, "the hill town with the traffic light". Haha. Once...

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Matron of Honor

My bestie is getting married! Along with my birthday present she sent me this awesome ask gift! And of course I said YES!! We met when I was 16 years old, working at my very first job AMC movie theaters. We bonded over "accidentally" breaking open the good candy behind concession stands and of course hating the same people. That's what girls bond over after all! Haha. From our AMC days,...

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