In honour of Karen's arrival, on Friday night we had a bbq for the Logos Hope team in Mosbach. You have no idea how difficult was for me to provide my normal standard of bbq fare when you just can't get good meat or decent marinades here. Anyway, we managed to feed everyone - in one case probably too well as Graham managed to break one of the chairs with a little help from Kara. The evening rounded off with some table football in the cellar.
On Saturday we took the train to the beautiful city of Heidelberg and had a great day exploring the castle and the city. It has so many stunning views and we took a lot of pictures - check out http://picasaweb.google.com/stehevpackwood/Heidelberg for all the pics.
It was a beautiful day and with a highlight being trying to find the right cow bells for our friend Colin in the market square: he on the other end of the phone listening to the various rings and telling us which one he liked best.
Sunday we visited the local Baptist church where the service was all in German but we had a translator. There was no Sunday school and all the kids had a pretty wild time keeping themselves entertained in a back room. Then it was off to the swimming pool as it was hot and sunny.
The rest of this week, Heather and Karen have tried to keep the kids out of trouble while it has been raining every day. Steve has spent his days at the office, trying to sort out a badge identity system for the ship and prepare for a visit down to the Trogir next week.
At the moment we still don't know when the ship will sail from Croatia. We are still hopefull it will be in Sept but we are going down to Trogir at the start of Sept so the kids can get into the school. A berth for the layup period has still not been confirmed but there are several options in north Germany and hopefully within a week or so we will know where we will be spending the rest of this year.
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