Fun weekend with Caitlin...

Seems like forever since I have been on here and love catching up with how everyone's Christmas went. Ryan and I had a great Christmas and even had a visitor for a couple days. Caitlin, Ryan's sister, made it here on the 27th safe and sound. We picked her up at the airport and headed straight back to the house. After getting "freshened up" we all jumped on the little strauss and headed into town. This really didn't take us too long since it was super cold and we had stayed up quite late then up early to get her so we were all dragging around 4 pm. We headed back to the house and we were all asleep by 5 pm. =)

Downtown Mannheim Water Tower

Inside one of the many BEAUTIFUL Churches

Just made me think of HOME

Sunday morning we were up early and out of the house by 8 headed to the Neuschwanstein Castle. It is the castle that Walt Disney mimicked for the Disneyland Castle. Let's just say it is ever little girl's dream to see the REAL Disney castle. So after the 3 hours there and then 3 back we were even more tired. King Ludwig II had two castles so we of course had to take the tour of both.

~Hope you enjoy all these BEAUTIFUL pictures~

From the Hohenschwangau Castle~The Neuschwanstein Castle~

Monday morning being back to work which was rather rough on Ryan and I. Not to worry we are on half days for the holidays, but since we left for Berlin after work we were a little worn out. Our 5 hour drive to Berlin to find our hotel and it turning out to be a Hostel, lets just say we weren't really too worried. We all headed down to the bar for a little while and had a good time. Caitlin turned 21 in July so Ryan HAD to get his sister a drink.

Tuesday, we took a little trip around Berlin but there was too much to see all in 1 day. We dropped Caitlin off at her hotel, making sure she was all settled in then headed on home.

The 5 hr trip turned into 6 1/2 after sitting in traffic. Gotta love these German Stau's!

Trying to make the trip as entertaining as we could but we were pooped!