Rhodes5 in Deutschland: Such a nice weekend!

We hit 70 degrees for the first time this weekend and it was so nice to finally spend time outside! Bailey and Camden both had soccer games on Saturday. It was the first game of the Season and Camden's first game on his High School Team. On Sunday, the kids were busy, so Bryan and I decided to go on a bike ride to another city that had a festival going on. We ended up in this little house with an accordian player and 80 year old dancers (dancing to the accordian player). It was so cute and so typical for Germany. After a long Winter, it reminded us of why we like it so much here :-)

Bailey playing (I had to work in the snack shack during her game, so I only got a couple of pictures of her :-( )

Camden is really enjoying playing this year.

And had to throw a photo of Frank in here too. He has discovered that he loves to snuggle in this blanket - so funny! Bryan is by far his favorite and he loves to get head rubs from him daily :-)

I had my camera in my pocket for our entire bike ride and kept taking it out to snap pictures. I like this one because it shows my bike bell (which is a mandatory thing by law here) - it is completely tacky, but it just makes me smile.

Such pretty bike paths to ride on!

I thought this was interesting to share. Germans consider Grafitti "Art", so you often see it around. We saw several of these sentiments written in this town. Interesting too, that it was written in English.

This is the typical sign that tells you what town you are leaving and what town is ahead (it is very easy to find your way)

The cute little Festival was spread throughout this small City

Beer, Brawtwurst, and an accordian player - doesn't get much more Bavarian than that :-)

We just happened apon the little bier garten above. It turns out that it is only open 3 days a year. The Historical Society renovated the cute little building in the late 90's. The waitress invited us in to show us around. She showed us the scrapbook of the entire renovation process. It used to be a Shoe Repair place and they still have artifacts from its origins.

This was funny! Bryan said it weighed about 30 pounds. The waitress insisted he pick it up :-)

She also told us to sit in these "Chairs of Royalty" for a photo. They were donated to the Historical Society by a lady who has now passed away. You never know what you are going to run into here - I love it!

This is the outside of the little building (the old Schuster/ Shoe repair shop)- so cute!

Then we headed off to the "town" Bier Garten - which is a lot bigger than the previous place we went. On a nice day - the Bier Gartens of Germany are full!

a cool little tower off in the distance

This place was self catering (meaning, no waitresses, you just go up and order it yourself) - Yummy!

Another sign in the town - "No Human is illegal"

And as we left, you can see the City up on the Hill

Finally, Spring is here!

And this was really cool. It was a Garden on the bike path that was still open from Easter. It has thousands of Easter Eggs and the kicker is that they are all real (no plastic!!!)