Heidelberg with the Starbucks

Tuesday night our good friends from Georgia came in to town… Aaron and Monae Starbuck with their oldest two (of seven)… Brianna (14) and Austin (12).   They had spent a couple days in London and Paris and rented a car from there, pulling into our house at just after 9:00pm.  It had been almost exactly 3 years since we’d seen them (which I still can’t quite believe) and it was so fun to have them in our home.  We gave them a tour of the house and then settled into the living room to chat until 3:30am.   It was so much fun to catch up.   Ryan and Katie took Brianna and Austin and they played Wii, played foosball, and got reacquainted.  The four of them were the best of friends when we lived in Georgia and it was fun to see them picking up right where they left off.

Wednesday morning came much too soon.  Ryan and Katie were missing school Wednesday and Thursday to hang out with their friends, but Ryan still wanted to go to seminary on Wednesday and Brianna and Austin decided they wanted to go as well.  After three hours sleep they went to seminary and came back home after Chris ran a PT test with only 1 1/2 hours sleep.  Emily and Megan were good to me and got up and ready by themselves, came in to say goodbye and headed off for the bus without me leaving my bed.   What good girls.

When we finally got ourselves up and ready, we headed out to explore Heidelberg.  We parked at P13 right under the castle and headed straight up the stairs to see it and check out the view from the top.  It was a cold day.  It seems like Spring will never come to Germany – it’s been cold for so long!

Down from the castle, into the main square and over to the Old Bridge…

Chris met us at the Goldener Falken for a great German lunch. 

Ryan and Austin and their flammkuchen…

I think Brianna and Katie’s cheese spatzle and German salad was the winning meal.