Thanks to Per Olav for driving us to the Oslo airport Friday morning (about 1 hour north of Oslo). We flew into Frankfurt, picked up our car and drove about 2 1/2 hours north to Remscheid to the beautiful home of Claus and Heidi Moeller. Claus and Heidi's two children, Jorn and Britta were exchange students who each lived with Connie and Bill for one year. Claus and Heidi have visited Spokane twice. We visited them in 1998, Steph spent Christmas with them in 1997 when she was teaching in Poland and Andy also visited in spring of 1998. And Connie, Bill and Amanda were there in 2001. But this was Ruby's first trip to Germany so it was a really nice to see them again and bring Mom. Britta and her boyfriend Juan flew over from London to join us which was a special treat. Heidi and Claus served us a fabulous meal Friday night to welcome us to Germany!
On Saturday August 18 we drove down to Cochem on the Mosel river. This is famous wine growing country and vineyards are everywhere on the steep hillsides. The picture above shows Ruby, Heidi, Britta, Mickey, Claus and Juan. Juan is from Argentina and a very nice guy! Above us is the famous Cochem castle we visited. The town itself is very quaint and beautiful as it is situated on the Mosel river. That evening Claus and Heidi treated us to a wonderful dinner in Koln (Cologne) at the brewery near the magnificent Koln cathedral along the Rhine River.
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