The Schloss (Castle) Schwetzingen was the summer home of prince elects Karl III Phillip and Charles Theodore and is well known for it's beautifully maintained gardens. The garden is a blend of two styles, the French Formal and the English Landscape and is preserved that way to reflect the change in gardening attitude during the 1700's. You can see the formal style garden as soon as you walk in the entrance. It has a huge circular format, with hedges tr...

This is not a leisure or tourist entry, but I figured I should document the experience anyway. After work on Thursday, I decided to stop at the commissary and pick up some things we needed for dinner before heading over to the CDC to get the boys. Taking the boys to the grocery store is something that I try to avoid at all costs because I never know what side of these little "Jekyll and Hide" monsters will come out. Will Carson sit in the cart calmly and enjoy...