On Wednesday Dan, Kristina and I left for Germany. Kristina’s husband , Ian, works with Dan and he has been up in Germany the past 7 weeks going through Noncommissioned Officers Academy and graduation was on Thursday the 16th. We left pretty early that morning, we picked up Kristina and were on the road by 0830. It was supposed to be an 8-9 hour drive that ended up being 12.5 hours. First all was good, we were moving right along, then we got stopped in traffic, I believe it was because the road got narrower and there was construction going on. Then we hit snow, so that slowed us down a bit, then we got stopped in traffic a few more times, it wasn’t fun. The most important thing is that we made it there safely.
The next day (the 16th) was Dan’s birthday, so I gave him his card and present and we headed onto base to take a look around. I’m glad we got to spend the day together. We went to the BX on base because we heard the thing was ginormous…and they were right. I am SO jealous of the BX they have there. I know they shared by Army and Air Force, but still, that it so much more than what we have here in Italy. I couldn’t believe how big the BX was, then they have a mall around it, a normal, US looking mall! Simply amazing. Wish we had something like that in Italy.
The graduation went well, Ian got distinguished graduate, all in all, it was a great time. Here are some photo’s from the trip.
This is when we came out of one of the tunnels and here was a lot of snow on the ground.
Our Hotel
Cold car
Kristina and Ian
The 4 of us
The 17th we drove into Kaiserslautern to see a friend we were stationed with in South Dakota
Downtown Kaiserslautern
It was a short trip, but nice to see somewhere new. We left the morning of the 17th and headed to Salzburg, Austria to stay for a few nights for the Christmas Markets. That post will come soon 
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