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Edi's!
This is where we ate in Miesau. Hello all.
Ok--to set matters straight to anyone wondering, Angie's paperwork to get out of the army is INCREDIBLY messed up right now. It's not affecting the trip like we thought it would (luckily they are not trying to make her leave the country now) but it's still messed up. Now, she's in a position called "stoploss" where her company is not allowed to go anywhere because they might get deployed. Even though she's techincally supposed to be out now, her name somehow got on the roster for the stoploss, so it's messed up her paperwork. Just to get her out of the stoploss now will take 2-3 weeks because she's going National Guard, so they can't keep her. In the meantime, until we can both get some special type of pass Monday morning, her husband has to sign us BOTH in as visitors and we basically can't get on base with out him. Eeeeeek. Luckily this won't be a problem after Monday morning.
Also because of all her crazy paperwork, our traveling got messed around a little bit. There for a few days we didn't go anywhere, and on Friday (when we were supposed to go to
Rustic German House
"Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go!"....this was near Angie's post. I thought it looked quaint. Belgium) we had to finish up her stuff--then we realized that stoploss thing happened. Because of that, today (Saturday) we went to Strasbourg (that will be in a different entry) and Monday we will go to Cologne, Aachen, Brussels, and Luxembourg. Then Tuesday through Thursday will be the Paris/Versailles trip as usual, and then on Saturday it's home for me.
We still managed to have fun even though we didn't travel for a few days. I learned more about international cuisine! Thursday night we went to a place in Miesau (where Angie's husband used to be stationed, not far from Kaiserslautern) called Edi's. It was really nice, and the prices weren't bad. Angie and Joe, her husband, know the current owner of Edi's, but I didn't catch his name. Edi was his grandfather and the restaurant/pub opened under him. They have some really good traditional German food there, and they have menus available in both German and English (it's literally RIGHT next to the US military post....lots of soldiers frequent the place). And they speak English pretty well too. I had a jagerschnitzel (a pork cutlet with mushroom gravy) and fried potatoes. It was really good.
The next night we had Turkish food from the village of Landstuhl (right by Angie and Joe's post). We had something called doners--sandwiches made from meat on a kabob with tomatoes, lettuce, sauce, and other yummy things. That was REALLY tasty. And Friday night we had Polish food--pierogies! Pierogies can be bought in the frozen food section in the States. I'm going to have to load up when I go back. Pierogies are pasta shells with cheese and mashed potatoes inside. Mmmmm....
Yesterday (Friday) we also went to the Kaiserslautern swimming facility. This was pretty big for me because I don't know how to swim. (If anyone is wondering why, I just never wanted to learn when I was young. The desire to learn still hasn't struck me.) This was the second time in my life I've waded in water up to my chest. They were taking AJ to the baby pool and to the shallow areas, so I decided to go too. The place we went to was really wonderful. I'd go back even though I still can't swim, just for the waterslides (that was another first life experience yesterday--Germany was the first time I ever went down a waterslide. Something I've never done since I don't know how to swim.) The name of the swimming pool/facility is Monte Mare (website: www.monte-mare.de) and if you're ever in Kaiserslautern and want to go swimming, GO THERE. The entry fee is 7 Euros and 50 cents, for 3 hours, and you can get an all day pass too. It has several areas. I think we were in the family area, but they also have deeper pools, jacuzzis, saunas, and even a nude part of the facility for skinny dipping. It's all inside and open all year 'round, even in the winter. And they serve food and drinks inside too. They have some really fun slides; one was totally in the dark (I liked it the best) and another one you could tube down. All in all fun time. And I didn't drown!
I'll have to write about Strasbourg tomorrow during our rest day. That was a fun but tiring day trip. Right now I have to catch some Zzz's. It's about 1am here. Good night!
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Adam
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Are you taking like five million pictures? this is going to make great stories ;)