Hiking to a castle, becoming a knight and riding a dragon (2 July)

Today I hiked to a castle. It was really long, very steep and very hard. 

At the castle I looked at the ruins and tried to pull a sword out of a rock.

At the museum I dressed in knight's armor and then I was made a knight. 

After that I went out to the playground and rode a dragon. It water dragon and shot water out of his nose. I tried to spray my sisters with the water.

Bike Riding (26 June)

Today I went bike riding with my family. 

I rode my bike next to the Rhine River. I had to go on a really tiny path next to the road. I was a little scared and then I fell off my bike. But I was okay and got back on my bike.

We saw the Lorely rock.

On the way home we took a ferry across the Rhine River to the town of Kaub. It was fun riding my bike onto the ferry.

I rode for a long way - 15 miles. My legs were shaky when I turned my bike back in.

Pictures from my walk around Bacharach

Today I went on a walk through the town where we are staying at - Bacharach Germany!  We saw lots of things and I took lots of pictures.  Here are a few:

My favorite wood working store:

High water marks from previous floods:

My favorite pizza store:

Me with a German flag and Pirate flag:

A cool window box:

A picture from our street:

A picture of town hall:

A picture of a dog: 

A picture of a menorah:

A cool slug:

I had fun on my walk, but it was really hot!  I think I might need some ice cream!

My new workshop

My favorite thing at our house is the big big yard - with a great view!  I have been playing soccer, petting the 3 kitties (they are really cute), and I built my own workshop with nails, hammer, carving stuff - everything that I need!  We also got our own soccer ball and have our own swing set!  And we get to play really late because it does not start to eat dark until 10:30PM!  My Mom and Dad have totally lost track of time!

One of my cute kitties!

My Sassy Kitty

My workshop!

My yard

My swing set - with a view!

Eiffel Tower

We climbed to the top!  We were so excited since we thought we were not going to be able to go.  It seemed like googolplex number of stairs and I thought we were leaning a bit.  But we couldn't go to the tippy top since there was cellular stuff (there are a lot of communications equipment at the top and this was the reason the tower was never taken down - it was only suppose to be up 20 years.  

We then came back around 8:30 at night to see it light up.  Then it started to light up - yellow to orange, then at 10PM - super late to me, it went off like the Paparazzi (meaning lots of strobe type lights went off for about 5 minutes). We stayed out so late and had so much fun!

Gargoyles

Dunt dunt donn....(Chayton sound effects)...We went to a Cathedral named Notre Dame.  We walked so much steps, it was hard for us to walk all the way up!  When we finally got to the top we saw a pretty view of the Eiffel Tower and we saw a Gargoyle that looked like it had 3 heads! But we also saw one that looked like a person, one that was sitting and one with a funny face with his mouth open.

My New Hat!

We stopped off at a souvenir stand and Daddy asked if we wanted to get a beret and we said Yes!  Nazeriah got a white one, Kaija got a blue one and I got a red one!