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Our family took a day trip today. It was the first family trip we have taken with Sarah. We drove two hours south to the Black forest. The kids stayed busy in the car counting red Ferraris. There were an unusually larger number of them on the autobahn today. A Ferrari is a midlife crisis on wheels! We had a great lunch. I should have taken a picture of it, but I was not fast enough! We were all pretty hungry and it was really good!!! Juergen took the kids down a summer bobsled. Juergen and I actually got to know each other because I crashed on one of these bobsleds almost 18 years ago (in fact 18 years ago this month). Nicole gets her braces removed tomorrow, so these will be the last photos I take of her with wire on her teeth! We love the South of Germany, and are thinking of renting a vacation house near the Alps in August. It was a really wonderful day!

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Anonymous said…
Wow. Beautiful pictures, Amy.
Was that one of a basket actually really huge?
I love family pics!
Btw - we took a day trip too this weekend - great fun!!!!
**hugs**
4:55 PM
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