We (Jordan, Anthony and I) flew to London for the weekend. Ha. I love saying that 
Oxford City
Bicycles Everywhere!
The first day we took the double decker bus out to Oxford City on a prophetic mission. To see C.S. Lewis’s house. We were not disappointed. We also got to eat at the pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien etc. ate and talked about everything under the sun.
C.S. Lewis's House
Eagle and Child Pub
Some children on Lewis Close
I thought it was cool that I saw these little boys walkin’ down the street on Lewis Close because all day I had been looking for a bookstore to buy C.S. Lewis’s Book ~ Letters to Children.
The next day we blazed through London on high speed tourist mode.
Outside Buckingham Palace watching the Changing of the Guard
The Parliament Building ~ I think
Big Ben
The London Eye
We also went to Ascot to visit some of Anthony’s relatives and then it was time to say goodbye the next morning. So after counting our currency from 4 countries:
Money from 4 different countries
we cried and said goodbye to each other 
Just kidding, there was no crying but it felt like there should have been. Jordan and Anthony flew back to KC and Calgary and I flew back to Warsaw, Poland. The next day I flew to Frankfurt and spent the night in Marburg with some amazing folk (friends of Allison and Samuel Moseley) and who’s children I had met at IHOP but didn’t know it until I “met” them the next morning. They showed me around their town where the story of Hansel and Gretel was written.
Marburg
Me in front of Allison Moseley's favorite Germany door
Window in the Castle in Marburg
When we drove into Marburg the night before, it was dark and the castle which sits on the edge of a high hill was all lit up. It was breathtaking! Really. My camera unfortunately, wasn’t quick enough to capture it. But it is etched in my memory. The next day we hiked up the hill into the castle. It was beautiful but the first glance in the night was by far the best!
From there, I took the train to Karlsruhe to meet up with this beauty who quickly won my heart. Not that it took much. I already liked her just from the pictures I had seen when she was first born…
Olina
Betcha can’t guess who she belongs to?
This proud papa…
Thierry and Olina
She has a proud mama too but unfortunately all the pictures of the 3 of them I took are on their camera. And they have not e-mailed them to me…yet.
We took a trolley to the Black Forest.
The Black Forest
And we had lunch in a community garden in Karlsruhe.
The Community Gardens
The next day I took yes, another train, to another amazing family in the Bavarian Forest. But you will have to wait til later for that adventure.
