What a week! We just got back on Sunday around 9:30p after a very eventful week of traveling. As stated in previous blogs, our good friends, Pete and Stephanie Stratil, from Seattle (before living in Chicago with us for 6 years!) were here for a visit.
Our itinerary consisted of the following:
Saturday, Oct 7th: Steph and Pete arrived in Amsterdam. We stayed and partied there that night, then headed to Lux the next day.
Sunday, Oct 8th and Monday, Oct 9th: We toured around Lux and Trier, Germany.
Tuesday, Oct 10th: We flew from Hahn, Germany to Milan, Italy, then drove to Cinque Terre, stopping along the way in Parma.
Wednesday, Oct 11th: We hung out in Cinque Terre for a bit, then headed to the Tuscany wine region (the heart of Italy).
Wednesday, Oct 11th-Friday, Oct 13th: We toured around Tuscany, including stops in Florence and Siena, as well as wine tasting and tasty dinners in the countryside.
Friday, Oct 13th: We drove to and toured around Venice.
Saturday, Oct 14th: From Venice, we flew back to Hahn, Germany, where we picked up my friend from work Robert and drove back up to Amsterdam.
Sunday, October 15th: We took Steph and Pete to the airport in Amsterdam that morning for their flight home, then ran in the Amsterdam ½ marathon in the afternoon.
Stephanie had been to Europe but most of the places on our agenda were new to her. Pete had never been across the pond so this was quite an opportunity for him. We will be writing the blog of our travels by day, similar to Ferd and Andrea’s visit. We have lots going on this week and next (out of town for training, etc.), but we will do our best to update the blog ASAP. To summarize, the trip was awesome, we ate and drank well and had the best time.
On a side note, Uncle Tim, your comment on the Oktoberfest blog was awesome and Ag couldn‘t stop giggling about it after she read it…Yes we forgot to mention there were chicken stands among the brat, pretzel and beer stands. The chicken stands were huge and basically had whole chickens roasting rotisserie style. There were probably 200-300 chickens cooking in one stand at one time. Part of the reason Agnes thinks this is so funny is because after being in the beer garden all day/night, she was craving a chicken and basically walked up to the stand and declared “I’ll have a chicken!” And a chicken is what she got! I had a few bites of it and it was delicious!
On a second side note, our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to you, Kris. Stay strong, get better, and we’ll see you in a couple of months when we get home for Christmas.
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