Let's play catch-up...

Wow. Where to start? So much has happened lately that it seems hard to believe we're almost to the end of yet another year! Christie and Travis got married October 4th, that was a pretty big deal. Below is a picture of Christie and Travis, and I'm messing up the coolest picture from their wedding. lol JK! The rest of the pictures (for the most part) are on Ronny's laptop, and he's off to Germany for the holidays. So the other pictures are MIA. lol

Which brings up yet another awesome thing from 2008. I went to Germany shortly after Christie and Trav's wedding. Yay! I was there for 11 days, and I had a blast. Ronny's parents... suffocated... him at a couple of points but overall it was a fabulous trip and I had a blast! (Ronny and I recently broke up, so who knows when I'll go back but I absolutely cannot WAIT!)

This was one of my first pictures in Germany, and it's definitely the first picture that is clear and recognizable.

The day after we got to Germany (we were just outside of Dresden, in a small town called Miltitz) we drove north about 4 hours to the Baltic Sea. In Germany, they call it Ost See. This was the first night we got there.

The cobblestone streets were really cool. A lot of towns had them still, but more and more they are being replaced by pavement. In Meißen, (the nearest city to Miltitz) the streets were paved but the places where people could park on the sides were still cobblestones. I am pretty sure the picture below was taken in Bad Doberan, which is as close to the Baltic Sea as you can get without actually being IN the Baltic Sea! haha I wasn't really paying too much attention to names of towns.

The picture below is a sign that was in the town. The blue up at top is the symbol for the autobahn.

One really cool thing we did (besides spend lots of time walking around on the beach) was take a train ride from one town to another on an old steam engine. I mean really OLD steam engine. At first I was really dreading this because Ronny's dad insisted we ride this thing because he really LOVES trains. Neither of us was looking forward to it, but it turned out to be really fun! It actually moved through the city streets like a trolley, but it was a steam engine. Once we got out into the open country it picked up speed and was just a ton of fun. I didn't sit in the cars, but stood at the back of one of them on the platform.

After we got back to Meißen, we went to see Albrechtsburg Castle. It's right in the city, and was amazing! It originally housed the Meissen porcelain factory, which is now down the street a bit. Meissen porcelain was the first in Europe (pictures of that later!) Albrechtsburg:

The picture below is of an alleyway leading to the castle.

And this one is looking back down to where I was for the first one...

Below is a picture of the city of Meissen from outside the castle.

This was in the city. I couldn't resist taking a picture or two of it, it's just so classically German. haha