We had crazy weather this winter/spring in New Jersey. Then we took a space-available hop over to Ramstein in a C-5 and enjoyed the trip of a lifetime: Maycation in Europe! We were there for three weeks and visited the Suess family in Frankfurt, then drove to Paris, then through the french countryside and stayed at Hotel-du-lac and had the most amazing meal of our entire trip. Next we went to Switzerland and stayed at an awesome hotel on the water of Lake Gevona, within sight of the Chillon Castle. The next day we drove to Italy to meet my family, we hadn't planned where we were staying that night and ended up at the Best Western Hotel in Brescia, Italy. we checked in late at night and when we went to our room, it was locked from the inside. then we heard voices then the "hotel manager" answered while tucking in his shirt as a girl slipped out the neighboring rooms door. We should have left but we so exhausted from 12 hours of driving. The manager couldn't keep his eyes off the crown jewel around my neck, aka my Canon 5DMii professional camera. The next morning during breakfast he stole it from our room. I believe karma will get him one day, and the anger I felt towards him and the helplessness of the police not believing what happened, everything just made me the most angry I had ever been at a person. But I had my phone and it takes decent pictures, and the kids had no idea what was going on, and I have insurance, and we still had a couple weeks left of vacation... so I had to try to forget and carry on. My parents made it to us later that morning once we had filed the police report & we got out of Brescia never to return again. It was no better in the daylight than it was when we pulled in at night, very poor area and filled with immigrants and sketchy looking people.
We went to the coastal town of Rimini where Blake had his first ever international triathlon experience. Then we transversed the Italian countryside for three days on our way to Rome where we saw the great coliseum and St Peters Bascilia and Vatican city, both as wonderful to see as you can imagine. Lots of tourists/pilgrims! Then we went on up to Pisa and the next day said goodbye to my parents and drove 14 hours to return to Ramstein AFB in Germany. we checked Italy off our travel list and saw everything we needed too there. We would love to see more of Germany and Switzerland was absolutely stunning! One day we will make it back over there.
Chillon Castle @ Montreaux, Switzerland
Eiffel Tower @ Paris, France
Leaning Tower of Pisa
St Peters @ the Vatican
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