Where are we now?

Keeping up with this blog is getting difficult these days. It's so much easier to throw one liners down on Facebook, getting lazy I suppose. We haven't been too good at taking pictures but we'll post those when we get home next week.

Our time in Germany was great. The Hartle family went way beyond themselves to host us in their home. We really enjoyed our time with them and all the German food and beer. It was a crazy six days at Ramstein. By the way, Ramstein is a small German town and also the name of the huge Air Force Base there. Anyhow, Erik's flight physical and family doctor/dentist appts took us there and it took all week to get it all done! We would take turn with the car during kid nap times do get some small errands and appts done. Erik was jumping left and right to make things happen and get us all taken care of and getting all of us to each appt on time. Not sure how it happened but he made the right phone call and we were able to get the kids in last minute to an EDIS appt to get the kids assessed. I'm talking about their language/speech abilities. I think Erik will be better at explaining it but I'll give you the "jist" of it. If you look at a bell curve they're both on the front side of it. Kenna responded bettter then Deegan of course. It was a tough time to have the appt too. We had to wake them an hour into their naps to get them there. Mr Deegan is grumpy and unsociable like his Mother when he's tired. They're on the average but she wants to see some improvement rather quickly. Unfortunately we don't have a Tri-Care Speech Therapist in Poland so it's up to Erik and I to continue working with them.

After all that at Ramstein we were off to our next destination. We headed for Salzburg, Austria. We could have made it there for dinner but we opted to detour down through Switzerland instead. Yes of course we stopped to eat and buy Swiss Chocolates to nibble on while driving through a drop dead gorgeous country. We busted out the dvd player we bought the kids for the first time and popped in "The Little Mermaid". You could see smiles and hear giggles. We didnt turn it on until we were a couple of hours away from Salzburg. We were wanting to keep them awake until we got to the hotel, way too late of course. They slept well that night and adjusted quickly. I'll chat about Salzburg later. I'm running out of time. Maybe I can get Erik to blog about it. Great city by the way.

After two nights in Salzburg we hit the road for a 3.5hr drive to Bratislava yesterday. Coming down the hill looking out you could see how incredibly huge Vienna is! We drove past it and about 45min later arrived in Bratislava, Slovakia.

I'll blog more about it later too. I recommend Old Town Bratislava, it's nice.

As of right now our plan is to hit the Castle after kids nap then a nice dinner. Tomorrow we are driving to Budapest, Hungary. Wish us luck with this one, we are only day tripping it. We could easily spend a week in Budapest, there is so much to see. We only have time to barely scratch the surface. The same way all the other cities have been I suppose. Maybe the next day we might back track to Vienna, not sure yet. We're "winging it" as we go.

Okay, more later.
Stacie

PS. Forgot to mention we also drove down to Bitche, France for a day trip.