Rhein River Cruise - Blogged by JME




Last Saturday, September 26, 2009, N8 had the opportunity to go on the Rhein River Cruise with some of the people from his department, as well as the Wounded Warriors.



He was able to see a lot of castles and beautiful buildings, a long with just beautiful scenery from the countryside.





N8 said that when the Roman's came to Germany, they planted grape vines everywhere. Some of them are on cliffs and places so steep, people have to repel to harvest the grapes and take care of the vines. Notice how many grape vines you see in some of these pictures. They were everywhere.



Some of these castles are so beautiful!



This is N8 with Sergeant B, his wife, and Chaplain S.



More grape vines!

I'm sure all of these places have a really neat story that goes with each and every one of them. I asked N8 about it and he said that the tour guide did give some history on each place but he had to do it in German, French, Spanish, and English and spoke so fast to fit it all in four different languages that he wasn't able to retain a lot of what was said.


Still, what a cool way to spend a Saturday!!!

Mainz-Germany - Blogged by JME

N8 had a really awesome experience last Saturday, September 19, 2009. He was able to go with the 'Wounded Warriors' on a sort of field trip. He was able to go to Mainz, Germany (pronounced My-n-tz . . . Sorry, I hope that helps). While he was there he got to go through the Guttenberg Museum. He was able to see three of the original Bibles that had been printed on the Guttenberg printing press. He couldn't take any pictures in the museum because so many of the things shown there are so old and so flash photography was not permitted.




While there, N8 also had a chance to go to a very beautiful cathedral. It was a pretty cool way to spend a Saturday.




N8 found this fountain that has a man that looks like he has gotten a little ill. I've seen fountains of little boys peeing but never a fountain of a man throwing up. Pretty funny!