Monastery Ruins and Hitler's Ampitheatre

 After Jared joined us in Heidelberg we were ready for an outing of exploring in Germany.  Lisa took us to some ruins that used to be a monastery up in the hills above Heidelberg.  How much fun is jumping, climbing, and running around a bunch of ruins??  For a kid A LOT!  (it better be since we are going to be doing a lot of this over the next three years!!)

 Megan Josh and Cole have become fast little friends.  Cole loves Megan!

 The view of Heidelberg Castle from the ruins

The story goes that Hitler tore down a lot of the Monastery so he could use the bricks to make this giant ampitheatre where he would deliver grand speeches to his followers... not sure that is fact or not

Next we explored these ruins.  The kids ran and ran and climbed everywhere.  The funniest thing happened here.  There was a giant tower to climb in these ruins where I was standing with Jared to take this picture.  While we were up there Jared thought it would be fun to throw the frisbee (the kind with a huge hole in the middle), to  Carter who was down below.  It was headed right to Carter when the wind picked it up and it ended up skimming these models and photographer there doing a professional photo shoot!  It was so funny.  The German guy up on the tower with us was busting up....so Jared quickly pointed to him when the people looked up at us and said "It was him!"  If you look closely up in the corner of this picture you can see the models. 

First family picture in Germany

The very frisbee is in this picture on Ryan's head....The group being themselves....Shortly after this picture, it started to rain so we all headed back to the cars as quickly as we could!