Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was very nice. My dad, Michelle, and Clover Twinkles came to visit!! Thanksgiving dinner was spent at Rhine Ordanance Barrack's Dining Facility. For 6.50 a person, you got a full Thanksgiving dinner. Granted, it wasn't phenomenal, but it was good and just perfect after traveling and not wanting to make a huge mess cooking. We met Michele and Nate there and Gabe, Cliff, and Sonya came too before heading off to Switzerland. After dinner we relaxed and enjoyed Turkey coma. We didn't do a lot on Thanksgiving. Watched movies, relaxed, and slept.

Friday we slept in, tried to get me moved in more, and relaxed. We went shopping for foods and storage. That night we fed Chloe her first baby food. German pumpkins :) Her little face was so funny trying to decide if she liked it or not. Again, pictures will accompany everything when I get home...

Saturday we went to Strasbourg, Frace to a Christmas market. Dad and Michelle were zombies after having not slept all night as Chloe was still on stateside time. But, we went anyway hoping to get some sleep on the bus. Of course Chloe slept on the bus... Strasbourg was nice and cold, Gluwein was everywhere, and we ate our way through the city. Of course not knowing French made it more difficult than going to a German Christmas market, but we did fine. It was an all day trip and we got back around 7pm. After that, we were all out for the count. We got home and ate leftovers and relaxed on the couch. We gave Chloe her first haircut too. Got rid of the baby mullet. She has a LOT of hair!!

Sunday was another sleeping in day. We went to brunch at Sander's in Landstuhl, then walked around Landstuhl's weekend Christmas Market. Got some hot donuts and enjoyed the atmosphere. We took a drive to Burg Nanstein looking over Landstuhl. We got home pretty late, then I went and got Gabe from Jason's house. Gabe spent the evening with us watching Buffy , eating homemade pizza, drinking wine and beer.

Monday morning we got up freaking early to take Gabe to the airport. It was hard, I was sad, I cried. Then we went to the Sheraton across the way and had a buffet breakfast. It was probably better in the end to get up early so that we didn't waste our remaining time sleeping as much as possible. But we were all tired, and I was sad. When everyone was off to a plane, I tired to get back home without my GPS. I only missed one exit and I was lucky enough to recognize that I'd done it right after it happened so I was able to turn around quickly.

Throughout all of this Michele Winn went into labor on Saturday. I got the phone call on Monday morning that Nadia had arrived! I went straight from the airport to LRMC to go visit. She's so beautiful, and SO TINY!! 5lbs 14oz. She knew I'd be sad so she decided to make the day happier by arriving.

Sorry so brief, I'm running out of time on shift. It's almost morning.