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MinnieM123
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Just a thought...I like this thread so much!
Glad to hear it, as we all like you, too!
Mr Ferret 75
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
DryerLintFan
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"Dis your wife. Why you got other numbers, bae??"
Songbird76
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I agree!!!
I have to send packages of them to my best friend, who lives in Australia now. She LOVES them.
Mr Ferret 75
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
Songbird76
Well-Known Member
I managed to get overheated when I took DD to the market today, so I'm feeling bla. I drank plenty of fluids, so I know it's not dehydration, just too hot...we were out there too long. So, time to continue with the mini-TR.
We left Phantasialand and went in search of food. I THINK this is the night we ate in Bonn. We wanted something other than fast food. We looked up restaurants on Google and found a mediterranean place in Bonn, which was on the way to Frankfurt, where we had booked a room at a Holiday Inn Express. We got to the restaurant location only to find it closed. It was ok though, because right behind it was a mexican place that looked pretty good. They had TVs set up all around outside for the World Cup Soccer...I think it was the night they presented the winner, but of course we aren't interested in that, so paid no attention. I didn't take any pictures because it wasn't anything spectacular...it was good food, just....I had steak and if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
DD loves steak, but doesn't like a bunch of spices, so she didn't want a steak, but was afraid to order something she loves that we make at home, because it will be different. So we ordered some corn on the cobb, some onion rings (hoping that they were REAL onion rings, not the fried dough with some onion paste mixed in and fried in the shape of a ring...that's what you get in the Netherlands when you order onion rings), and some mushrooms in a garlic and white wine sauce I think? She liked the onion rings (YES, they were REAL onion rings), but not the mushrooms, and the corn was just ok. I was worried that she wasn't getting enough to eat, so I let her try my steak....and she loved it. So I ended up giving her most of my steak and I ate the corn and the mushrooms. And we got cheesecake and something else to share for dessert...I don't remember what, but it was good! We were glad the other place was closed because we really enjoyed our meal here!
Then we stopped at a McDonalds for DS, and then continued to Frankfort. Germans....let me tell you...they are not very wise about their construction of roads. So many of the roads are really bad, so they are fixing them up. But they aren't doing small bits at a time...they are doing everything all at once. So it takes you a LOT longer to get where you need to go. We pulled into our hotel at like....Midnight, I think. We checked in...the guy who checked us in was really nice and gave the kids candy. DD and I took the elevator while DH took DS with the stairs because DS is terrified of elevators. The room was TINY, BUT it had air conditioning AND Wifi!!!! Woohoo! And everything was clean and not broken. SO nice.
We got free breakfast in the morning. The kids were enamored with the pancake machine...you press a button, it squirts the batter onto a conveyor belt thing and it cooks as it moves along....you can watch it, and then it flops the pancakes onto your plate at the other end. There was a group of Asian tourists who apparently couldn't see the milk dispensors by the cereal...they all took their bowls across the room to the coffee machine with the hot milk.
Whatever floats your boat. It was not a very large spread, but I was able to get my yogurt with oats.
This day was not a mission day for Ingress, but the van was in Frankfort, so DH had planned to do Ingress anyway. We were going to go see a bunch of the sites in Frankfurt and he asked if I minded if he did a short mission on the way...I said sure, go ahead...and then we walked and walked and walked for over an hour. We did see some pretty things:
Finally, DH realized that this was taking longer than he had thought it would and he'd better either let us go on without him while he played, or he would need to play later. So we crossed a bridge over to the main city.
I really wish I knew what this is....this old building in the amongst all the newer ones. But it was to the left as we came off the bridge, and we were going right.
DD photobombed me. (Can you see the shirt she's wearing, @Cesar R M ?)
We went into a cute little teddybear shop...they had some Disney things, but I had forgotten my camera at the hotel since we were staying one more night, and I was trying not to take TOO many pictures on my phone. I did love this though.
We left Phantasialand and went in search of food. I THINK this is the night we ate in Bonn. We wanted something other than fast food. We looked up restaurants on Google and found a mediterranean place in Bonn, which was on the way to Frankfurt, where we had booked a room at a Holiday Inn Express. We got to the restaurant location only to find it closed. It was ok though, because right behind it was a mexican place that looked pretty good. They had TVs set up all around outside for the World Cup Soccer...I think it was the night they presented the winner, but of course we aren't interested in that, so paid no attention. I didn't take any pictures because it wasn't anything spectacular...it was good food, just....I had steak and if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
DD loves steak, but doesn't like a bunch of spices, so she didn't want a steak, but was afraid to order something she loves that we make at home, because it will be different. So we ordered some corn on the cobb, some onion rings (hoping that they were REAL onion rings, not the fried dough with some onion paste mixed in and fried in the shape of a ring...that's what you get in the Netherlands when you order onion rings), and some mushrooms in a garlic and white wine sauce I think? She liked the onion rings (YES, they were REAL onion rings), but not the mushrooms, and the corn was just ok. I was worried that she wasn't getting enough to eat, so I let her try my steak....and she loved it. So I ended up giving her most of my steak and I ate the corn and the mushrooms. And we got cheesecake and something else to share for dessert...I don't remember what, but it was good! We were glad the other place was closed because we really enjoyed our meal here!
Then we stopped at a McDonalds for DS, and then continued to Frankfort. Germans....let me tell you...they are not very wise about their construction of roads. So many of the roads are really bad, so they are fixing them up. But they aren't doing small bits at a time...they are doing everything all at once. So it takes you a LOT longer to get where you need to go. We pulled into our hotel at like....Midnight, I think. We checked in...the guy who checked us in was really nice and gave the kids candy. DD and I took the elevator while DH took DS with the stairs because DS is terrified of elevators. The room was TINY, BUT it had air conditioning AND Wifi!!!! Woohoo! And everything was clean and not broken. SO nice.
We got free breakfast in the morning. The kids were enamored with the pancake machine...you press a button, it squirts the batter onto a conveyor belt thing and it cooks as it moves along....you can watch it, and then it flops the pancakes onto your plate at the other end. There was a group of Asian tourists who apparently couldn't see the milk dispensors by the cereal...they all took their bowls across the room to the coffee machine with the hot milk.
Whatever floats your boat. It was not a very large spread, but I was able to get my yogurt with oats. This day was not a mission day for Ingress, but the van was in Frankfort, so DH had planned to do Ingress anyway. We were going to go see a bunch of the sites in Frankfurt and he asked if I minded if he did a short mission on the way...I said sure, go ahead...and then we walked and walked and walked for over an hour. We did see some pretty things:
Finally, DH realized that this was taking longer than he had thought it would and he'd better either let us go on without him while he played, or he would need to play later. So we crossed a bridge over to the main city.
I really wish I knew what this is....this old building in the amongst all the newer ones. But it was to the left as we came off the bridge, and we were going right.
DD photobombed me. (Can you see the shirt she's wearing, @Cesar R M ?)
We went into a cute little teddybear shop...they had some Disney things, but I had forgotten my camera at the hotel since we were staying one more night, and I was trying not to take TOO many pictures on my phone. I did love this though.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
- No
I did with one of them. But then more keep calling. Annoying.
93boomer
Premium Member
EWWW - so sorry that your family had to deal with that. We had a room like that once. It was in FL-not disney! It was so bad that I pretended that my Mom had fallen ill and we had to leave and head home. They refunded our money and we found another hotel, thank goodness. That is the only time we've had to leave a hotel room.
SteveBrickNJ
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Great photos and an interesting post. Thanks for sharing!I managed to get overheated when I took DD to the market today, so I'm feeling bla. I drank plenty of fluids, so I know it's not dehydration, just too hot...we were out there too long. So, time to continue with the mini-TR.
We left Phantasialand and went in search of food. I THINK this is the night we ate in Bonn. We wanted something other than fast food. We looked up restaurants on Google and found a mediterranean place in Bonn, which was on the way to Frankfurt, where we had booked a room at a Holiday Inn Express. We got to the restaurant location only to find it closed. It was ok though, because right behind it was a mexican place that looked pretty good. They had TVs set up all around outside for the World Cup Soccer...I think it was the night they presented the winner, but of course we aren't interested in that, so paid no attention. I didn't take any pictures because it wasn't anything spectacular...it was good food, just....I had steak and if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
DD loves steak, but doesn't like a bunch of spices, so she didn't want a steak, but was afraid to order something she loves that we make at home, because it will be different. So we ordered some corn on the cobb, some onion rings (hoping that they were REAL onion rings, not the fried dough with some onion paste mixed in and fried in the shape of a ring...that's what you get in the Netherlands when you order onion rings), and some mushrooms in a garlic and white wine sauce I think? She liked the onion rings (YES, they were REAL onion rings), but not the mushrooms, and the corn was just ok. I was worried that she wasn't getting enough to eat, so I let her try my steak....and she loved it. So I ended up giving her most of my steak and I ate the corn and the mushrooms. And we got cheesecake and something else to share for dessert...I don't remember what, but it was good! We were glad the other place was closed because we really enjoyed our meal here!
Then we stopped at a McDonalds for DS, and then continued to Frankfort. Germans....let me tell you...they are not very wise about their construction of roads. So many of the roads are really bad, so they are fixing them up. But they aren't doing small bits at a time...they are doing everything all at once. So it takes you a LOT longer to get where you need to go. We pulled into our hotel at like....Midnight, I think. We checked in...the guy who checked us in was really nice and gave the kids candy. DD and I took the elevator while DH took DS with the stairs because DS is terrified of elevators. The room was TINY, BUT it had air conditioning AND Wifi!!!! Woohoo! And everything was clean and not broken. SO nice.
We got free breakfast in the morning. The kids were enamored with the pancake machine...you press a button, it squirts the batter onto a conveyor belt thing and it cooks as it moves along....you can watch it, and then it flops the pancakes onto your plate at the other end. There was a group of Asian tourists who apparently couldn't see the milk dispensors by the cereal...they all took their bowls across the room to the coffee machine with the hot milk.
This day was not a mission day for Ingress, but the van was in Frankfort, so DH had planned to do Ingress anyway. We were going to go see a bunch of the sites in Frankfurt and he asked if I minded if he did a short mission on the way...I said sure, go ahead...and then we walked and walked and walked for over an hour. We did see some pretty things:
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Finally, DH realized that this was taking longer than he had thought it would and he'd better either let us go on without him while he played, or he would need to play later. So we crossed a bridge over to the main city.
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I really wish I knew what this is....this old building in the amongst all the newer ones. But it was to the left as we came off the bridge, and we were going right.
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DD photobombed me. (Can you see the shirt she's wearing, @Cesar R M ?)
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We went into a cute little teddybear shop...they had some Disney things, but I had forgotten my camera at the hotel since we were staying one more night, and I was trying not to take TOO many pictures on my phone. I did love this though.
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Cesar R M
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Songbird76
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I love all the old buildings there....we basically just walked into the city, had a drink on a terrace there, then walked in a bit further. They had a Five Guys, and DD and I were going to eat there, but she's never been to one and she felt more comfortable with Burger king, and of course DS will only eat at Mc Donalds, so DH took him there. We met back up and went to Primark to see if they had any Disney or Harry Potter stuff we didn't already have. DD got a Ravenclaw Pin set, and I got a decorative sign/ direction sign that has like...Honeydukes, zonkos, shrieking shack, etc.
As we were walking around, there was a very fake-looking Mickey Mouse with a cheeseburger...it was kind of creepy. We just walked past. We also saw an ambulance pull up and there was a woman passed out on the street. We were going to do a bus tour or a boat tour, but they were like 60 bucks for the whole family. No thank you. So we just walked back the way we came and there was a church I had seen that I wanted to explore.
You can see the woman there in front of the doors...she was asking everyone who went in or out for money. A woman stopped, gave her a coin, and the woman had the audacity to tell this woman that it wasn't enough, she needed to give more. Really? She got nothing from me. I DID, however, put a few Euros into the offering for the poor inside the church.
After this, we decided to go search for food. We didn't want to have to walk all the way back into the center of town, and there was a nice-looking place right around the corner. They had steaks and pasta and stuff....we sat down, looked at the menu, and then realized it was Halal. Not a problem, per se....we don't have anything against Halal food, but they had Halal versions of sodas that were really not good, and DD ordered ribs, but of course they were beef, not pork, and you couldn't even cut through them or find anything but fat. So she didn't eat them. My pasta was pretty much nothing but garlic...it was so strong. We had thought we might luck into another great meal like we had the night before, but nope. I'm sure it's a great place for Muslim's because they know they don't have to worry about it, and to be fair, I think we just ordered the wrong things. DH had some sort of schnitzel thing and he said it was good. If we'd have ordered steak, it probably would have been great.
We headed back to the hotel for the evening so DH could get to the van, and finish the mission he had started that morning while we stayed in and took advantage of FINALLY having internet.
The next stop for the van was a couple of days later, in Munich...would we go there? What would we do tomorrow?? We had ZERO plans.
As we were walking around, there was a very fake-looking Mickey Mouse with a cheeseburger...it was kind of creepy. We just walked past. We also saw an ambulance pull up and there was a woman passed out on the street. We were going to do a bus tour or a boat tour, but they were like 60 bucks for the whole family. No thank you. So we just walked back the way we came and there was a church I had seen that I wanted to explore.
You can see the woman there in front of the doors...she was asking everyone who went in or out for money. A woman stopped, gave her a coin, and the woman had the audacity to tell this woman that it wasn't enough, she needed to give more. Really? She got nothing from me. I DID, however, put a few Euros into the offering for the poor inside the church.
After this, we decided to go search for food. We didn't want to have to walk all the way back into the center of town, and there was a nice-looking place right around the corner. They had steaks and pasta and stuff....we sat down, looked at the menu, and then realized it was Halal. Not a problem, per se....we don't have anything against Halal food, but they had Halal versions of sodas that were really not good, and DD ordered ribs, but of course they were beef, not pork, and you couldn't even cut through them or find anything but fat. So she didn't eat them. My pasta was pretty much nothing but garlic...it was so strong. We had thought we might luck into another great meal like we had the night before, but nope. I'm sure it's a great place for Muslim's because they know they don't have to worry about it, and to be fair, I think we just ordered the wrong things. DH had some sort of schnitzel thing and he said it was good. If we'd have ordered steak, it probably would have been great.
We headed back to the hotel for the evening so DH could get to the van, and finish the mission he had started that morning while we stayed in and took advantage of FINALLY having internet.
The next stop for the van was a couple of days later, in Munich...would we go there? What would we do tomorrow?? We had ZERO plans.
Cesar R M
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aww yeah! Stitch!I managed to get overheated when I took DD to the market today, so I'm feeling bla. I drank plenty of fluids, so I know it's not dehydration, just too hot...we were out there too long. So, time to continue with the mini-TR.
We left Phantasialand and went in search of food. I THINK this is the night we ate in Bonn. We wanted something other than fast food. We looked up restaurants on Google and found a mediterranean place in Bonn, which was on the way to Frankfurt, where we had booked a room at a Holiday Inn Express. We got to the restaurant location only to find it closed. It was ok though, because right behind it was a mexican place that looked pretty good. They had TVs set up all around outside for the World Cup Soccer...I think it was the night they presented the winner, but of course we aren't interested in that, so paid no attention. I didn't take any pictures because it wasn't anything spectacular...it was good food, just....I had steak and if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
DD loves steak, but doesn't like a bunch of spices, so she didn't want a steak, but was afraid to order something she loves that we make at home, because it will be different. So we ordered some corn on the cobb, some onion rings (hoping that they were REAL onion rings, not the fried dough with some onion paste mixed in and fried in the shape of a ring...that's what you get in the Netherlands when you order onion rings), and some mushrooms in a garlic and white wine sauce I think? She liked the onion rings (YES, they were REAL onion rings), but not the mushrooms, and the corn was just ok. I was worried that she wasn't getting enough to eat, so I let her try my steak....and she loved it. So I ended up giving her most of my steak and I ate the corn and the mushrooms. And we got cheesecake and something else to share for dessert...I don't remember what, but it was good! We were glad the other place was closed because we really enjoyed our meal here!
Then we stopped at a McDonalds for DS, and then continued to Frankfort. Germans....let me tell you...they are not very wise about their construction of roads. So many of the roads are really bad, so they are fixing them up. But they aren't doing small bits at a time...they are doing everything all at once. So it takes you a LOT longer to get where you need to go. We pulled into our hotel at like....Midnight, I think. We checked in...the guy who checked us in was really nice and gave the kids candy. DD and I took the elevator while DH took DS with the stairs because DS is terrified of elevators. The room was TINY, BUT it had air conditioning AND Wifi!!!! Woohoo! And everything was clean and not broken. SO nice.
We got free breakfast in the morning. The kids were enamored with the pancake machine...you press a button, it squirts the batter onto a conveyor belt thing and it cooks as it moves along....you can watch it, and then it flops the pancakes onto your plate at the other end. There was a group of Asian tourists who apparently couldn't see the milk dispensors by the cereal...they all took their bowls across the room to the coffee machine with the hot milk.
This day was not a mission day for Ingress, but the van was in Frankfort, so DH had planned to do Ingress anyway. We were going to go see a bunch of the sites in Frankfurt and he asked if I minded if he did a short mission on the way...I said sure, go ahead...and then we walked and walked and walked for over an hour. We did see some pretty things:
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Finally, DH realized that this was taking longer than he had thought it would and he'd better either let us go on without him while he played, or he would need to play later. So we crossed a bridge over to the main city.
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I really wish I knew what this is....this old building in the amongst all the newer ones. But it was to the left as we came off the bridge, and we were going right.
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DD photobombed me. (Can you see the shirt she's wearing, @Cesar R M ?)
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We went into a cute little teddybear shop...they had some Disney things, but I had forgotten my camera at the hotel since we were staying one more night, and I was trying not to take TOO many pictures on my phone. I did love this though.
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21stamps
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WOW!!!
I’m so happy that he decided not to play with school.. I’ll happily throw that money away. There’s no way we could have juggled it.
Some of these days have 2 games, can’t be seen due to how I had to crop. August 18-19 are a minimum of 4 games, could be more if we make it past the group stage.., same with October 13-15th. The September 30th games are at 2 different venues, not close to each other.lol
Time for me to buckle up!! I’m already dizzy.
One of T’s teammates is one of 4 siblings who plays travel soccer., I have no idea how his parents do it.
Here’s T’s Fall game schedule -
I’m so happy that he decided not to play with school.. I’ll happily throw that money away. There’s no way we could have juggled it.
Some of these days have 2 games, can’t be seen due to how I had to crop. August 18-19 are a minimum of 4 games, could be more if we make it past the group stage.., same with October 13-15th. The September 30th games are at 2 different venues, not close to each other.lol
Time for me to buckle up!! I’m already dizzy.
One of T’s teammates is one of 4 siblings who plays travel soccer., I have no idea how his parents do it.
Here’s T’s Fall game schedule -
MySmallWorldof4
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That ice cream with stroopwaffles looks amazing!!!!
MySmallWorldof4
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It's the best! Thanks for finding it.Just a thought...I like this thread so much!
Songbird76
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We really hadn't made a whole lot of plans....just kind of an outline. We knew we wanted to go to Legoland, but that was a couple of hours from Frankfurt. After having arrived an hour late to Phantasialand opening, we didn't want to make the same mistake for Legoland. And Munich is in the South, but the van wasn't there for a couple more days. I knew DD wanted to see Neuschwanstein, and it's only an hour from Munich, so we decided to go to Füssen and go see the castles. DH booked a hotel. It was pretty expensive, but it was the cheapest one in the area. And it was close to the castles.
I want to say it was supposed to be a 4 hour drive? We slept in a bit because we didn't have any set time to be somewhere. We figured we'd get there early afternoon and maybe get to see one of the castles before going for dinner. We got onto the highway and we were immediately delayed 30 mins due to construction...oh well...no biggie. 30 minutes isn't that big of a deal. There were a couple more slow patches, and we decided to stop and get some lunch and go to the bathroom since there was a McDonalds right off the highway and DS had just informed us he needed to GO. We got back on the road. Then we hit a complete standstill. Our GPS was trying to reroute us off the next exit, 4 km away. It took us an HOUR to make that exit. As we approached, we saw the problem. The entire highway was closed. EVERYONE had to take that same exit and take a detour...3 lanes worth of traffic all had to exit into one lane, and turn LEFT with no stoplight. We ended up being delayed by more than 2 hours.
I took a few pictures as we headed South:
By the time we got to our hotel, the reception desk was closed, but they had left the key for us in the mailbox. We got out to unload the car and stretch our legs. It was way too late for the castles that day, but we had the whole day tomorrow.
The hotel sits on a hill, and down the hill is a lake, and across the lake are the mountains. So these are taken from the hotel.
You can see both castles from our hotel.
The hotel, taken from the beach.
Our room:
I took this from the window in our ROOM. We had a view of the castles from our ROOM!
I want to say it was supposed to be a 4 hour drive? We slept in a bit because we didn't have any set time to be somewhere. We figured we'd get there early afternoon and maybe get to see one of the castles before going for dinner. We got onto the highway and we were immediately delayed 30 mins due to construction...oh well...no biggie. 30 minutes isn't that big of a deal. There were a couple more slow patches, and we decided to stop and get some lunch and go to the bathroom since there was a McDonalds right off the highway and DS had just informed us he needed to GO. We got back on the road. Then we hit a complete standstill. Our GPS was trying to reroute us off the next exit, 4 km away. It took us an HOUR to make that exit. As we approached, we saw the problem. The entire highway was closed. EVERYONE had to take that same exit and take a detour...3 lanes worth of traffic all had to exit into one lane, and turn LEFT with no stoplight. We ended up being delayed by more than 2 hours.
I took a few pictures as we headed South:
By the time we got to our hotel, the reception desk was closed, but they had left the key for us in the mailbox. We got out to unload the car and stretch our legs. It was way too late for the castles that day, but we had the whole day tomorrow.
The hotel sits on a hill, and down the hill is a lake, and across the lake are the mountains. So these are taken from the hotel.
You can see both castles from our hotel.
The hotel, taken from the beach.
Our room:
I took this from the window in our ROOM. We had a view of the castles from our ROOM!
Songbird76
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Yep...she has a couple of Stitch shirts and a pair of shorts. She LOVES stitch! I thought you would approve.