Marburg, Germany {2013}

Day 26 Thursday, October 3rd Germany

Our timing in Germany couldn't have been been more perfect as we were there over a 4 day holiday weekend so Olaf & Janina were free to just play around with us.

This morning we came downstairs to a beautifully set table and yummy breakfast with the family.

Afterwards we headed to Marburg - a super duper old traditional looking German village. It was one of the coolest thing ever. It didn't even look real:

We said some pretty offensive things to each other as we were walking around:

Kris: I'm gonna wait til your sleeping and then piss up your nose.
Katie: I'm going to eat your balls for dinner. Or mayb I'm going to rip off your testicles, reeze them, and use them as ice cubes. Or maybe I'll make an eye patch out of them.
Kris: Oh yeah? Well I'm going to shit on your face while you sleep.

We ate lunch at this super delicious tapas restaurant with the cutest table settings:

And the funniest signs for the bathrooms:

We continued walking through town, which lead you waaaaaay uphill to this beautiful church at the top:

As were walking back down we saw some funny German penis chalk drawings. Please note the intact weener’s — far different than the mushroom head style penis doodles you’d see in the slice em up happy U.S. —

We stopped at their friends house at one point and they had restored the most amazing home and had a large garden outside and inside was just so beautifully decorated with all of these super adorable vignettes everywhere:

That night we stayed up again after the girls went to bed. The guys were talking cars and looking up how to import into the U.S. The girls were talking birth, hobbies and motherhood. This woman was one of the sweetest mothers ever. She was saying how dad loves putting the kids to bed and even doesn't mind when one of the girls comes into their bed at night, but she doesn't like it. I said, "Well....maybe it's because he's at work all day and doesn't see them, so that time is special to him in a way that's not for you because you're with them all day every day so by the time they go to bed you're touched out and need your own space." She was like, "Oh. Yeah. Yes. Exactly." I think it's funny how just understanding someone else's perspective can go such a long way in your perception of their actions.

She said that she gave birth in a hospital, but in German hospitals it's almost always with a midwife. You never see a doctor unless you'd need to. And they didn't push any interventions on her or have plans to induce her or anything like that. Dad remembers looking at her placenta and taking pictures of it and everything. And of course, Kris' penis came up and they can't believe that people circumcise in America. They were so fun to talk to. Just real, genuine, warm, loving people.