Europe Day 7 Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Our hotel in Warburg.

Inside the lobby of our hotel from the loft breakfast area.

The table below was where we had the most delicious food of my life. It was beautiful.

The view from our hotel loft eating area.

Tour of Warburg.

The wall that you see was the original wall that protected the castle that use to be there in the 14oo's.

A beautiful sitting area.

Famous Artist who lives there.

Turns out after our tour, I realized his art was displayed in our hotel.

This is where people got there food for the day, fresh.

Loved Warburg, but then it was time to go on to the next town.

This was the next hotel we found ourselves at.

This was the key we had. It was a serious key chain. I don't think you would forget to hand it in when you check out. It was huge.

Here is my working man. Even into the late night hours and with a stuffed up head.

Europe day 6 Monday October, 18th, 2010

Belgium Castle

Castle grounds

Welcome to Germany

Phone booth

Almost to our destination!

Our room at the Romantik Inn

Co-worker after dinner~business or pleasure:)

We have officially started our driving part of the trip. The morning we finished up in Belgium with a whirlwind tour of a Castle and ended our day with a fantastic dinner in Warburg, Germany. When I say "fantastic dinner", I mean, it was FANTASTIC! Honestly, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my whole entire life. If only it would have been appropriate for me to take photos of the food I got to eat, I would have. It was food that just stepped off the pages of the best food magazines or shows you have ever seen. (we were with a customer, so I had to act like a proper lady, not so much like a tourist;) This meal deserves a post all of its own. Although, now that I think about it, I'm not really sure what the food was called. I almost forgot how that all went down. HA, funny story. I was looking at the menu, that was all in German, and I couldn't read. Then when it came time to order, I ordered only an "starter" and said that was all I wanted and our hosts and the waitress all looked at me like I was crazy~so being the submissive wife that I am, I looked at Troy and said, I don't know what I should do. So I ended up just saying I would have whatever the wife of our host was having. At this point, I was really nervous, because I had no idea what was going to come out and knew I had to choke it down no matter if I liked it or not. Praise God it was delicious. Our hotel was adorable and wish we could have stayed longer.

Europe Day 5 Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Brussels, Belgium City Center

The way the Belgium's serve up the waffels.

Yummy!!!!!

The smell of chocolate filled the streets~this was one of my favorite things.

I even eat chocolate like a tourist. I bit into it and powder(chocolate) went all over my face and coat. Nice, right?!

This was a spectacular building!

I thought this would be a good spot for him to give me a diamond and re-propose to me like in the commercial, but he didn't seem to think this would be quite the right spot. I think he even got sweaty palms at my suggesting it. Not so much the proposing part, but the diamond. I have a ton more photos from Brussels, but didn't have time to post because it was late. So this is just a taste of Brussels for now.

Europe Day 4 Saturday, October 16th, 2010

Zanndam is the suburb of Amsterdam and this is where our hotel was.

These 2 photos are of us goofing around as we waited for our train to the city, right before we realize we are not in the right spot, imagine that.

Troy trying to figure it out so we don't miss the train.

Ok, this is it.

We did the brewery tour and had a lot of fun. The smell reminded me of when I was a kid and my aunt use to take me to the brewery's in Milwaukee each summer.

This one was for my boys who love James Bond.

Strolling through Amsterdam.

Like my new shoes?

Taking a small break to rest our feet and warm up in the sun. It is pretty chilly.

This car is crazy small.

Graffiti is everywhere. I wonder if they like it or not?

Back in Zandamm, for our last visit to our favorite ice cream shop.

Zandamm was like a ghost town when we got there. Seems most places close at lunchtime on Saturday and don't re-open until Monday. So glad our doner and ice cream place were open.

Goodnight and goodbye Zandamm. Tomorrow we are off to Belgium.