The road sign leading us to the plush Air Force base-Ramstein

A German police car.

The sign right outside of the gate to the plush air base.

A cool thing I saw on a building right outside of Lanstuhl (another military post right down the way from Ramstein)

The sign in front of the building from the picture above (with the lions) on the way back to Ramstein. 

More buildings on the way

and some more

Now back on the Autobahn heading towards Baumnholder (Michael's old stomping grounds)

This is the little town right outside of the gate at Baumholder.

This is the super cute little road leading to the gate.

The sign outside of the gate for Baumholder Army Post.

Another road and part of the town right outside of the gate.

Pictures of the housing buildings on Baumholder.

More of those housing pictures.

Another view of the sign outside of the gate coming out of the gate.

This is a picture of a bridge on the way to and from Ramstein and Baumholder form Grafenwoehr.

One of the views from the Autobahn.

awesome old car I saw on the Autobahn

This is what bothers my allergies...

...do you see all of the yellow, it is everywhere.  I felt like I was punched in the face by allergies.

I thought this was a really cool looking building in Idar-Oberstein.

This is still Idar-Oberstein.  This is was we saw on the way to the moutain to see the castle and the church built into the side of it.

And the climb begins.

I stopped here to take a picture of the city..and to breath.

the climb continues

This is the church biult into the mountain

another picture of the church

a map of the trail we took

another view of the city...and more time for me to rest

i am still working on translating the writting on this, but it was posted up on the way to the castle.

This is part of a wall from a part of the castle that was destroyed.

The castle from accross the mountain

This is what it used to look like

A view of the area that we were at.  We were at the red circle at the top of the map.

This is what the red circle is in real life.

This would be whole reason we climbed all the way up there.

Now you can really see tht it is built on a side of a mountain.

Another city view.  You will notice the houses look much smaller in this city view photo...it is because I am much higher up.

Another view of the city.

This is the other side of the tower (A.K.A. red dot on map)

Picture of the tower and the castle it was once attached to in the backround.

We are sooooo cute.  ;-)

Random from the camera

This is at the post we are at.  It lables it as a training area.

Oso enjoying the scratchpost and it's comfy little crevices.

Chango also enjoys those same spots.

Oso participating in his favorite hobby.

I would like you to notice that his tongue is out just a little...goober.

Sometimes they even share it...not all of thier parts fit on it all the time though.

City: Landstuhl

City: Landstuhl

City: Idar-Oberstein

The backround is of the city after we climbed way up to the side of a mountain.

City: Idar-Oberstein

Behind us is a castle...and the reason why we climbed the mountain.

City: Baumholder

This is a Doner shop (a Doner is a sandwich) and this place makes the best ones in all of Germany...so far. 

This is the sign outside of the Donor shop

This is the cigarette machine inside of the shop.  Cigarette machines are everywhere in Germany, almost on every corner and definatly in almost every bar.

This is a little piece of the artwork inside of the shop, I took this for you Mom.

This is right outside of post in Baumholder.  This is a super nice movie theater with a huge lounge area inside to relax in while you wait for your movie to start.

This is our view from out hotel in Ramstein Air Force base.  Man, the Air Force has it nice.

This is my first shot of real Absinth.  I had it at a little cafe and bar names Vis a' Vis.

This is a picture of our movie tickets from the Broadway Kino.  You will notice that it says English on it.  This place plays movies in English and in German.

This is the rose my hubby bought for me from a cute little old man that was going around all the bars when we were in Baumholder selling fresh cut roses.

Back to the Absinth...the process goes like this: you take a spoon full of sugar (sounds sweet huh...NOT) and dip it into the Absinth and place it on the shot glass(full of sugar and Absinth) like so...

...then you light it on fire, and have it stay lit until the sugar starts to carmelize, once this lovely step is complete then you blow it out and stir it in the shot until you have a clean spoon, and then you pull the spoon out.  Now on to the fun part, shoot it.  Oh it is a new kind of awful.

And this is the source.

This is the radio station that plays near Baumholder and Ramstein(on the westside/opposite side of Germany)  It is the best station around becasue they play a lot of American music.