Zurich, Switzerland
In April, we drove four hours down to Zurich, Switzerland and spent the weekend with a good friend of ours from college. After her busy work week we were able to steal her away and do some sight seeing around the town. We hiked church towers, payed way too much for beers and brats, sat on the lake while we fed the swans, had the most expensive (but tastiest!) whiskey drink I've ever experienced from the Old Crow and played chess with pieces half of our body size.
U.S.A
Two weeks later we began our adventure to the States! We went for one of my best friends weddings but were fortunate enough to make a big trip out of it. We started in Frankfurt and flew 10 hours to Atlanta. From there we flew another 4 hours to Arizona to spend the week with my family.
Our first week in Phoenix and Tucson were perfect. We did some pool days, enjoyed breweries while getting down on some American food, celebrated old-man-Taylor's 29th birthday and most importantly got to see so much of my family INCLUDING my 99 year old sassy great-grandmother.
After our week in Arizona was up we continued our journey to Utah.
The next two weeks were spent catching up with our close friends and spending time with Taylor's whole family. All his siblings were together and even recreated an old family photo that brought me to tears from laughter.
We spent our time in Salt Lake City, Park City and even made a trip to Grand Junction, CO to see some of our favorite people, Emma and Frank! We did a fun drive around Colorado National Park and then ventured into Fruita where we did wine and whiskey tastings!
Our last weekend in Utah was spent celebrating Danielle and Dakotas wedding up at Deer Valley! I couldn't have imagined a more fun, beautiful, perfect wedding! The Utah soccer girls danced the night away to the dueling pianos while making rounds at the bar... just like old times. Can we do that again soon, please?!
Brugge/Ostend, Belgium
After our trip to the States we settled down for about a week before making our next move.
Taylor spent the weekend playing on the Baumholder soccer team in Wiesbaden. He had a great time getting the cob webs out of his keeper gloves and getting out on the field!
While Taylor was playing soccer I made my way to Belgium. My friend Amanda (who visited us last October) was back in Europe! Between her Paris-London-work-trip and Ireland-Wedding-bridesmaid-duty she booked a flight to Brussels so we could meet!
I drove three hours to the Brussels airport early in the morning and picked her up. From there we headed to Ostende which is on the Belgium coast and stayed there for a few days. We wandered around Ostende for the first two days, hitting up restaurants, walking along the beach, sitting on rocks by the ocean, and of course drinking Maes beer!
Our third day was spent seeing the town of Bruges. We took a 20 minute train ride in and walked around the cute medieval, canal-filled, cobble-stoned town for the day. I also finally had my first Belgian Waffle!
