We went on to Europe and had a few days in Germany

The Sound of the Church Bells (excuse my commentary)

 We had the weekend with Bart and then had a few days sightseeing. We loved what we saw of Germany, it's beautiful and green, obviously they get plenty of rain :-) Cute little village's were spotted everywhere. Rosemarie suggested we visit Heidelberg which was very beautiful, it would've been even prettier in sunshine

This is looking up at the Heidelberg Castle

On 1 of the bridges looking at the old city

We enjoyed wandering around soaking up the sights:-) 

We had a few coffee stops

And of course tasted their treats:-)

We loved all the houses along the river side

Another view of the castle

There were lots of little interesting cobbled side streets

 Then we headed across to drive down the Romantic Road which has lots of cute old villages along the route

We chose not to go on the motorways so we wandered thru lots of interesting country sights :-)

Our favourite city on this road was a walled city called Rothenburg ob der Tauber

We walked around the city on the top of the wall

We enjoyed all the sights on the way round 

We found these delicious looking pastries,  Schneeballes,  that were originally a specialty from Rothenburg odt 

I chose 1 of the smaller 1's, it was a little like eating an uncooked slice, but maybe different flavours would be different

I couldn't resist taking photos of all the flower boxes and arrangements outside peoples house's

A cute shop

I love all the different shaped steeples 

Walking up to the Castle in Fussen

The Neuschwanstein Castle

Hi to Bart outside their Tent Mission with one of the young friends Franziska 

We couldn't believe all the Rd  signs for the mission that looked all very official but apparently it's what they usually do.

We went for a walk around the village where we were staying in

I loved this sight

Bart and his co Andreas

This was outside the door of Rita Karl's place where we were staying

Visiting Jen in Hong Kong, China

Haha Hi Jen:-) Giving the thumbs up to HK Good to see she still has her good sense of humor:-)

Jen met us in HK and we headed straight thru to China on the train. We had a delicious Korean lunch with Jeanette who's looking after her mum at present. She was the 1st local teacher .

This is Jen in front of their apartment building. Their apartment is the blue one to the left of her head

May and Jen in their kitchen cooking us a delicious American Pancake Breakfast

Lew in the living area

Sitting down for breakfast, Mango's Blueberry's the works:-)

Jen ready to devour her pancake that she'd prepared perfectly

In her bedroom with her photo board

In Jen's city Guang Zhou

We'd just heard Savannah Jessica has been been born :-)

Skyping Roxy to see and hear about our new little Granddaughter:-) It was neat being with Jen for that moment:-)

We found this baby shop just after hearing the news so we had to go in a get a couple of treasures:-)

Jen  should've been standing to the right and it would've looked like she was wearing a hat:-)

There's lots of these trees near to where Jen lives

We went out for dinner to a Japanese Restaurant, we sat on the floor and there was a pit for us to put our feet into:-)

Jen doing the chores:-) Cute eh:-)

This is a nice green shot in Guang Zhou 

With Jen's Language Teacher Erica

Our Last Supper in HK Delicious

Jen's  favourite  city

We went on the ferry over to HK Island to head up The Peak for a view over the city

June

Jess and Steve's new family member called Goose! She's a lively cute little kitten.

Jess cooked us a lovely dinner when Aunty Ruth came for a visit:-)

How cute is she?

Brandy checking her out:-)

Our dear friends Alton and Liz put on 1 of their famous Saturday Morning American Breakfasts for us before we head  away