Monday we had to make a drive to find a certain kind of gas station. It's a long story, but if you want to pay for gas
not on the economy, the military requires you use this certain kind of station. ESSO it is called. They told us they were everywhere. But they weren't anywhere near where we were. But half-price on a full tank of diesel will encourage you do difficult things.
The night before, JB found the ESSO website and located one about an hour from us. Let me digress for just a moment and comment on my husband's talent with directions. He is amazing. Anywhere we have travelled around the entire US and the world, he quickly acclimates himself and directs us as if he grew up there. Stebbins says she thinks he is Turkish deep down the way he can get around in Turkey. But it is no different in the subways in DC or NYC or the backroads of South Africa.
Anyways, enough of that.
Since we wanted to view the Rhine River anyhow, we decided to go for it and make the trek for gas. We got gas, drove along the Rhine, and then picked up lunch at a grocery store and bakery and ate it in a park. It was a little colder today but the boys still enjoyed the time outside and the beauty of this country.
Elijah and JB walking in a park that we stopped at for lunch. 
Here's our lunch. Strawberries, grapes, rasberries, apricots, blueberries (already devoured by the boys), rasberries, and then some fun bakery items we found around the corner including some streudel. Yum! 
We've been trying to teach the boys, mostly Elijah, not to demolish flowers with his interest in them but to smell them and love them. (They saw Daddy take off some rosemary for them to smell once and thought you do that to all flowers.) Here is Elijah practicing this skill. 
He loved to have his hood on. 
While walking to the bakery, we saw this train. Elijah decided to give it an up-close-and-personal inspection. 
Yes this is exactly what it looks like. 
Here are the boys with a "Stein" bigger than they are. The word "steiner" is everywhere here.
Here is Isaac taking the time to smell the flowers. 
I accidentally caught this picture but it absolutely cracks me up. Elijah is just like JB when it comes to the need to investigate plants and animals. He has to stop for everything. Wonder where he gets that from?
Elijah chasing some ducks. 
Elijah and JB walking in a park that we stopped at for lunch. 
Here's our lunch. Strawberries, grapes, rasberries, apricots, blueberries (already devoured by the boys), rasberries, and then some fun bakery items we found around the corner including some streudel. Yum! 
We've been trying to teach the boys, mostly Elijah, not to demolish flowers with his interest in them but to smell them and love them. (They saw Daddy take off some rosemary for them to smell once and thought you do that to all flowers.) Here is Elijah practicing this skill. 
He loved to have his hood on. 
While walking to the bakery, we saw this train. Elijah decided to give it an up-close-and-personal inspection. 
Yes this is exactly what it looks like. 
Here are the boys with a "Stein" bigger than they are. The word "steiner" is everywhere here.
Here is Isaac taking the time to smell the flowers. 
I accidentally caught this picture but it absolutely cracks me up. Elijah is just like JB when it comes to the need to investigate plants and animals. He has to stop for everything. Wonder where he gets that from?
Elijah chasing some ducks. 
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