Steve and Rachel Visit

Our son Steve and his wife, Rachel, and their three kids, E, A, and L live in Qatar.  Each summer, they travel somewhere else to get away from the intense heat. Usually, they come and visit both sets of grandparents in Utah and Oklahoma.

This summer, they chose Europe.  They visited Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Fussen (Neuschwanstein castle), Nürnberg, and then FRANKFURT.

They did all this travel on trains with a Eurail Pass.


We drove to the Hauptbahnhof, met their ICE train, put the luggage in the car with Randy and Steve.

 Then Rachel and I took the kids to McDonalds for lunch.  Next, we managed to loose Rachel and L because they had to take an elevator and E and A chose to take the escalator.  Unfortunately, the two did not arrive near the same place.  But we finally met up again near where we started and headed into town to enjoy some sightseeing and shopping.

That means LEGOs in case you are wondering.

We took the 5 floor high escalator up into the MyZeil shopping center.

It has a hole right through the whole building.

E loves to stand at the joint of the huge bus where the floor rotates.

We borrowed a bike trailer from Leimers: a good time was had indoors and out. . . 

. . . when it was working.

We borrowed a bike for E from Tom King and E rode it everywhere . . . 

. . . including to the local park with the spiderweb and huge slide.

There, A and L fixed us a sandy meal.

E and his dad rode the zip line over and over and

A decided to get buried and become a mermaid.

E climbed everything, from the slide to the huge tree on the north of the park.

Meanwhile, back at the apartment, the pigeon eggs that were laid while we were in France hatched.

Not much more fun than Grandpa and his I pad.