Kings, Queens and Strawberry Fields

April 26, 2008-

Today we went with Marita and Christian to Laffeld for their king and queen celebration. Every year each town gets a king and queen that represent the town in parades. They have to dress in formal clothes and have parties, it is a really neat tradition that Germany has had for awhile. Marita and Christians friend and his girlfriend were king and queen. It was nice to see, there were marching bands from different towns and they go to the king and queens house and get them and then march them around the town.
After we went to Laffeld we figured we were already halfway to Heinsberg so we might as well go and get ice cream! So we rode there through all of the strawberry fields. Unfortunately they hadn’t started ripening yet so they didn’t smell great! Usually when they are ripe you ride through them and all you smell is strawberries. So we had some ice and then rode back home. It was such a perfect day for riding, it was warm but overcast so the sun wasn’t beating on us. It was sad because it was our last bike ride with Marita and Christian here in Germany. I will definitely miss being able to ride my bike anywhere I want. The movers come and get the rest of our stuff Tuesday and we move over to the hotel :-( Can’t believe it is two weeks from today....really sneaks up on you!