On the way home from Legoland we took a small side trip to see the tallest church in the world: The Ulm Munster. You could see the spire from the autobahn several miles away. This church dominates the skyline high dwarfing all the buildings around it. The spire rises 530 feet and you must climb 768 steps to reach the top.The parish church of Ulm was located outside the walled city in the 14th century. In 1377 the inhabitors of Ulm decided to work together to...

Ben is finally back from SLC and we spent the first weekend cleaning the house (not that you can tell when you look at it today) and catching up on sleep. I just couldn't bear sitting around the house for another weekend, so we decided to go to Luisenpark in Mannheim. This is our first outing as a family in a couple months. At first we were planning to go to the Schwetzingen Garden, but when we drove past it there was a very large crowd in formal attire st...

Here is the experience of our trip. I will post another entry about the interesting history of Alghero.One day I was browsing the Internet and came across Ryan air having a sale. Flights from Frankfurt Hahn to Alghero were only 8 euro one way. That's a pretty good deal, I thought to myself. Now only if I knew where Alghero was. I looked it up on google maps and found out it was an island in Italy. That would be a perfect trip to go relax right before Be...

Before heading back to Germany, we decided to take a trip to the fourth smallest country in Europe, Liechtenstein. It is just 62 sq. miles across and the only country that is located entirely in the Alps, bordered by Switzerland on the west and Austria on the east.Liechtenstein is a constitutional monarchy, headed by a prince who's ancestors spent years yearning for power. They eventually made enough money to purchase a strip of Rhine floodplain and adjacen...

Have you ever had an itch that you needed to scratch? Well, Ben had an itch, an 18 year itch, as a matter of fact. 1994 was the last time he had gone skiing and he had reached his breaking point. He put his foot down and said "The next trip we are going on is skiing." With that said, I was put to work as a free travel agent, scouring every ski area in Austria and Switzerland within a five hour drive.  Weather in Bavaria is unpredictable and we knew that a f...