Biking/Dusseldorf

Just a few pictures from our biking, I think the ones here are from in the fields behind Langbroich and some are of a park in Ubach-Palenberg that we rode too, also an old windmill that is semi-near our house, we rode over too it, on accident we were a bit lost. Also a picture of the Rhine river and Dusseldorf. I need to remember to start turning my pictures the right way when I upload them, such a pain though!

We haven't been too busy lately. The past few weekends have been really nice so we have been doing a lot of short bike trips, usually only about 10km or so. A few weekends back we went to Dusseldorf with Marita and Christian, it was really nice there, I love Dusseldorf it is one of my favorite cities!

More Karneval Pictures...

These are just a few with us in our costumes. It was SO cold, I think we all had on like three layers of clothes, luckily the costumes were a bit baggy so we were able to fit so many clothes! It was so much fun and I loved my costume...it was so comfortable to wear around. There is this great store in Heerlen, NL that has hundreds of cool costumes, I told Luke we will have to get some for Halloween. They had really cute Pirate ones but were out of them :-(



This was a really cute picture. My friend's daughter wanted to dance, but nobody wanted to dance so everyone told her to go bother Luke and Luke gave in and danced. After this she followed him around all day, knowing he would play with her!

Aachen Karneval

These are all pictures of floats from the Aachen Karneval Parade. There aren't too many because after awhile I got bored taking pictures and decided it would be much more fun to get the candy with everyone else! Plus I was in the back and all of my pictures had heads in them anyways.




Here is a cute picture of Luke and Kriss. They were both so cold! It was a cold day out however. It didn't help that we thought the parade started an hour before it actually did so we were waiting outside for an hour listening to an announcer talking in German. The only word I recognized was "Alaaf" because that is the Karneval saying. Oh ya for my own future reference because I keep forgetting, Karneval is called Fasching in Southern Germany (couldn't remember that for the life of me this weekend).

I have a lot more pictures from Karneval of us in our costumes but they are all turned sideways at the moment and I need to go in and fix them and then i will post them. Hopefully soon!

Langbroich Karneval

We had the big Karneval celebration this year in Langbroich. There was a huge parade and parties all over, it was a blast. The parade route went right down our street so we could watch from our windows if we wanted (which some of us did!) My friend Elizabeth and her two daughters came to our house to watch the parade and we sat outside and I brought Duke out with us. It was fun out and there was lots of music and the girls got a lot of candy and weird stuff like kleenex, dish scrubbers and even a carrot! We didn't get all the way dressed up today we just did crazy hats, tomorrow we are heading to Aachen for a big parade and we are going all out with the costumes. Should be a blast!



Cute picture! I like the black and white.



This was just a really good picture of Duke, he is so photogenic!



This guy was cool he actually posed for a good picture.



My pink hair is so cool! We only wore our hats today but tomorrow we are doing the full outfits.



This picture was too cute, you can tell Duke was enjoying himself at Karneval too! He loved the attention and it was a great socializing outing for him!



These two guys just came over and laid down next to Duke it freaked him out a bit at first, but he soon loved the attention. He was a huge hit all the people in the parade wanted to come over and pet him and play with him. (It probably didn't help that most of them were drunk!)



One of the floats from the parade.