The Car Arrived: Trip to Weiden

Our car got here today and I was so excited! I literally hugged my cute little Mazda.  Believe it or not, there is not a lot going on in Vilseck (thank goodness for fun neighbors!), so we decided to take a short road trip and go exploring.

We ended up in Weiden, which is about 40 minutes from where we live. 

We stopped at some store that I can't remember the name of, because I am in search of something similar to a Target!  Well, it was no Target, but more of a Lowe's with a furniture store on the top floor.  Not too much fun stuff to look at there, considering we are not allowed to remodel our government housing. So we left Furniture Lowe's in search of something else fun. 

We found this cute little strip of shops.  Germany is cool because it seems there are all these tucked away little places, with modern stores, but in old and beautiful buildings. 

As we were walking, we saw this little restaurant where people were enjoying huge sundaes of Italian gelato (they love gelato here, which is great because so do we!).  Almost every restaurant has outdoor tables so that you can enjoy the beautiful summer, it doesn't last long here apparently.  The funniest part of our adventure in Weiden was when we were going into some of the shops.

Andy looked at one of the stores and said, "What's EuroShop?"  I looked and said, "Oh my goodness, it's like the dollar store! Everything is 1 Euro!"  We thought this was hilarious because just a few days ago, we were joking about how it's too bad they don't have a dollar store here.  What a find!  We picked up some floats for Evan for the schwimmbad (the pool).  After the Euroshop, we enjoyed an authentic, outdoor meal at the local McDonald's, and of course some gelato for dessert.  It was a fun day and so nice to have our car and leave the post! More adventures to come!