On Friday I picked up AJ and his friend Julie and her mom and went to the carnival that is in town.  We got there a little early (didn't realize it didn't open until 5) so went to a park first.  It was great!!  The weather was in the low 70s and beautiful!!!  So they had fun playing at the park.  Then I told them they each could have one ride because David wants to come too and they can do more then.  I do have to say I miss being able to get wrist bands.  You have to pay per ride and it is not cheap.  The small kiddie rides are 2 euros (about $2.60 US) and it goes up from there.  The big ferris wheel is 4.50 euros for an adult.  So to say the least they still won't get too many rides, but we will go enjoy some good food down there!!  Much different carnival food here than in the states.  And of course they have a beer tent with live music at night.  Well we had a successful pumpkin patch and had to get the pumpkins carved.  Michael was begging me and begging me to carve them so when Daddy finally woke up on Saturday morning he was ready!  We had a couple of the neighborhood kids that they were playing with help us and David loved that because he didn't have to do as much as normal.  They were excited to help!  It was good to because we had to get over to AJ's bowl-a-thon for his cub scouts.  They are raising money for a trip to camp on the beaches of Normandy in spring of 2014.  He did AWESOME too!!!  He bowled a 98/122/111; I couldn't believe it!  He did have bumpers up, but he beat all the kids in his lane all three games.   Lucky it was per pin and not score because we would have paid even more!  He had a lot of fun though!!! Then we came home and had a BBQ with our neighbors.  It was a lot of fun and nice that our schedules finally matched up.  The boys had a good time also!  They have two girls, one AJ's age and then one is in 6th grade.  We found out about some cool activities to do and are looking into even more adventures!!  Very excited about that!!   Burg Frankenstein post coming soon!!!  Man I got some good pictures!!!

 

Checking out the ducks, I guess you can feed them, but we weren't prepared for that

 

This is a big slide and the thing Michael carried up I think weighed almost more than him and there was an escaltor the 2nd half of the way

 

Very intense concentration carving the pumpkin

 

AJ working hard on his too

Bowl a thon!!!