Zoo, DinoPark, and German Food!

The Zoo!

Saturday morning we got up and went to the Kaiserslautern Zoo.  It's a fairly small zoo, but it was still a lot of fun for the girls.  Sometime in the next few weeks we are going to drive to Frankfurt and take the girls to the zoo and aquarium there.  But here are some pictures of the Ktown Zoo.

DinoPark!

Since Father's Day was on Sunday, we wanted to try to find something fun to do for Nathan.  Our neighbor had talked to us about a town called Bad Durkheim, which is where there are a lot of vineyards and some great wine.  So when we got up we headed towards the town which is about an hour drive.  We were less than a few km away (about 2 miles) and found out the road to get to the village was closed.  So we parked our car and asked a man if there was anyway around the road construction.  He basically told us we could either walk the rest of the way or turn around and head back to the autobahn and go a different way, which the detour took us all the way back to Kaiserslautern and then we would have to start over.  So to make a long story short, by the time we got back to Kaiserslautern we decided to just find a place to eat downtown since we had been driving around for almost 2 hours already.  So we went to a diner and had brunch.  After we ate we had remembered Brandon telling us about a DinoPark in the area so we decided to look that up and we ended up only being a few minutes away from there.  So we went there the rest of the day and had a BLAST!   We will definitely be taking a lot of trips to the DinoPark this summer.  All four of us had a great time and Nate ended up having a fun Father's Day.  Here are the pictures from the DinoPark.

This is a map that shows how big the park is!

The dinosaurs were really cool, but the views in the park were amazing.  You can climb up through the forest area.   

Beautiful flowered areas.

Hali reading the dino signs...

Siena has to do everything her big sissy does :)

There was a part of a castle up in the forest

This is the view over Ktown when we climbed up into the forest- Beautiful day!

There are a ton of playgrounds in the DinoPark.  These slides were huge!  Even bigger than the one by the lake.  Here's some pics of Nate and Hali once they got to the bottom of the big one...

German Food!!

Monday we went to a large furniture store called Mobel Martin.  It's kind of mixture between Good's, Ikea, and Crate and Barrel.   It's a really neat store and we are going to buy some of the things we need for our new home there.  But inside the store is a little German restaurant so we decided to try it.  Nathan and I got salads and on top they put these huge fried potato things that are filled with cheese.  Then they put this French yogurt dressing on it and it's amazing.  I took some pictures of it and the desserts too!  Oh and by the way- we did end up getting the house by the lake.  We haven't taken any pictures yet and the ones the owner had posted online aren't available for viewing anymore.  So we get the keys on June 27th and actually move in on July 1st.  We will post pictures as soon as we get in the house!   

As Hali would try to say "Auf Wiedersehen"

Love and miss you all!

The Ponce's