Love #5. The happy... sad... happy sequence. aka. fake cry!
All is good.
What?! I cant have what I want?!
Uh huhh huhh... Pweeese!!!???
Uuuhhhh..... waaaahhh......
Ok. Im over it! :)
Love #5: I love to see the Temple.
Worthy to enter in!
Frankfurt, Germany Temple. Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
First time to the temple together in 2 years!
See the birds on the trumpet!? I love looking up at Moroni! My favorite feature, every time!
Such a BEAUTIFUL place!
So.... There is a story to this day. One definitely worth sharing! :)
8:30 Dropped babies off with my good, but relatively new friend.
9:00 Went to the base to load up on gas, air in the tires, and SNACKS.
10:00 On the road.
Now the plan had been to leave about 8am. The session we planned to attend was at 1pm. It is supposed to take about 2-3 hours to get to Frankfurt from Spangdahlem. We thought we could be there by 11 or 12. There are 2 or 3 routes you can take.... We took the longest. (Thank you, GPS.) SO. We left at 10am. Should be there by 12. GPS took us ALL KINDS of back roads. Spent more than an hour of our drive on windy back roads, seemingly in the middle of nowhere!
1:10 Arrive at the Temple.
10 minutes too late to do the session.
At this point we are not phased! We are having a great day, we have played and snacked, and enjoyed a beautiful scenic drive through Germany!
Once inside we find that the only one available to help us in English is the Temple President! They pretty much rolled out a red carpet and MADE work for us to do, as there was nothing really on the schedule that we could do! :)
That was just amazing! So touching! We had a wonderful experience and were so grateful to be able to serve in the House of the Lord.
2:45 Finish and exit.
The retail store closes at 3.
We RAN to the store and quickly got what we needed and were out just before they closed.
Ok. Time to go eat and go home. We changed out clothes, parked the car, and casually took pictures as we walked to the Marktplatz (Main street, or Market place).
...These are our fun casual pictures as we are walking... no rush. :)
No idea what kind of plant this was, but LOVED the dangling seeds!
Cameron and OUR car...
Cameron and the SUPER EXPENSIVE, AWESOME car that he could only dream of owning! :)
Picture perfect bench!
He is such a STUD! Oh how I LOVE this man! This picture makes my heart skip a beat!
I am one HOT momma! :)
The happy couple.
Ok. Cameron has had enough pictures and is leaving without me.
That's the, "Put that camera down and let's go" look!
Check out the size of that LETTUCE!! (Possibly cabbage... I don't remember.)
These
were so pretty! Had to ask, but yes, they ARE prickly pears! Just like
in the Jungle Book and Baloo sings about them in, "The Bear
Necessities"!
So
right about this time we realize that the Restaurant we had intednded
to go to had closed. At 3. And... so did the rest of the Walk platz.Its
like 3:20.
Ahahahaahaaaa.... ok. Now we have laughed. Now what?!
So
we drove until we saw a grocery store and got some meat, cheese, and
some "milch brotchen mit butter" or Milk bread with butter.
O.M.Goodness. It was yummy! Oh and butter cookies. They are like a drug
to me. SO GOOD!
So we are on the road
again. AND we realize at this point that we are at half a tank of gas.
This may or may NOT be enough to get us home, and we do NOT have euro to
get gas on the economy!... So Weisbaden has several bases (where I
lived for 4 years when I was little). Let's just go there! Its on the
way!...
Its also a huge, freakin' city!
We got lost, had to ask for directions!
Found gas.
5:00 On the road home.
So
now we are not only WAY LATE on getting home... my breasts are KILLING
ME! -- See, I am a breastfeeding mother and Cooper is fine on formula
while I am gone, but MY BREASTS had NO RELEASE! ... I realize that is a
lot to talk about in a public forum, but lets face it. I am not shy! :)
So
here we are driving down the German highway, taking the apparently
fastest way home, the back roads, and I have my boob out, in hand, and
in a CUP trying to hand express my milk so that I don't get mastitis
and/or EXPLODE! (Mastitis= Scary infection!) All this and the long day
behind us = fuming mommy on the way home! Poor Daddy! :) He was a
trooper though!
So we got to my friends house to pick up the boys about 7:30-8.
She has a Medela Electric Breast Pump.
HALLE-FREAKIN-LUIAH !
I totally thought my friend would hate us for being so late, but she didn't! :)
We got the boys, got home, and got to bed!
Day done.
At the end of the day I can say 2
things; I truly LOVE to see the Temple and am grateful I had a friend to
take the boys so Cameron and I could go together! And then this, NEXT
time we are getting directions! ;)
Thank you for reading my BOOK of a post! It really was a great/interesting day! I am so glad I could share it with you!
xoxo, Jess
The sunset along the German hills as we drove home.
