The Schmidts

While waiting to get into our house we were able to take a trip to the Rhine River through the on base travel agency RTT. There is a pressure to travel when you get here and so we jumped on the bandwagon. It was a fun no stress way to do it. :) It is obviously our first trip, we took pictures of every castle on the Rhine and everything else.  Toured the Rheinstein Castle  Sam was super excited to ride on the bus! We had an early departure and late return, a long fun travel day.  Those who were misbehaving spent time in that cage. Yikes!                               The Vineyards - there were so many and on such steep hills, pretty incredible.                                                                     Our cruise ship                                                    Our Cable car ride up to the vineyards                                    

We have moved two times and had it down to a science, but this time turned out to be a whole different experience. Typically we would hit it hard for two days with Sam in daycare to get all the boxes unpacked and everything put away; pretty much everything but decorating. But because of three missing significant pieces of the puzzle, the same process took months. Missing Piece #1: JUSTIN Justin felt like he absolutely needed to be there when the trucks unloaded our stuff, so he was there for that and then, he was long gone! Why? He was one of very few Lieutenants/co-pilots who could fly because of varying circumstances in his squadron and it was his first real job in the Air Force. He happened to add 6 different countries to his Country count in the month after our stuff arrived not to mention the local and training/refresher flights. When he was home he was putting in LONG days because of it all being new and the busyness of his squadron. Pilot training was a piece of cake comp