Achtung!

Time to dust off the Pen (Keyboard) and get the travel blog out again. The Galloping Gobets are at it again. Here it is almost a year later since the last entry. And the stupid thing is, we did travel. You, dear reader missed out on the Crater Lake trip. Siggi & Manfred came to Oregon for a very short 10 days. We kidnapped them and went to Bend & Crater Lake and then Mt. Hood. Below are a few of those pics. And now just in case you didn’t already hear the story. One Sunday night in October we were settling into bed so it was around 10:30pm. Jerry was surfing on his phone. He was looking for tickets to Alaska to visit his friends there. I have encouraged him to go on trips without me. Jerry: So you want to go to Germany in February? Me: No Jerry: What? I thought you said you wanted to go in February. Me: Why are you asking? Fasching week is March 4th in 2014 so I don’t want to go in February. So he frantically surfs and then comes back to me with Jerry: OK how about Feb 20th through March 11th? Me: How Much? Jerry: $728 round trip. SOLD! So on Thursday we will be jetting off to Hamburg first to visit Reimer & Birgit and their two children Ella & Kieran. From there you will need to read the next blog entry cause when I get to the Fasching celebrations I think it will get real interesting. A quick itinerary is Hamburg – Karlsruhe – Cologne – Amsterdam – Brussels – Luxemburg – Karlsruhe – Suttgart. And 20 days of friends – Beer – damn good food – and laughter. Boy do I need this vacation!