Yup, my mom is here. We picked her up at Trier train station. Didn’t do anything over the weekend. Couldn’t really do anything since there are now seven of us and the truck only seats 6. Made going anywhere imposable, especially entering the base. So the weekends were spent here at the house.
Today (Monday), we picked up the rental vehicle, it is a 9 seater van, Mercedes Vito. It is actually a pretty nice van. Because how long it took to get the van and get on our way, we realized we wouldn’t have the time to really go anywhere out of town. Which really sucked. Ok, in all honesty, we could have picked the van up earlier, but I had a 9am hair appointment to get the tips of my layers dyed again. I went with the blue/black again, but Kevin says the black is darker and seen easier…
After picking up the van, Kevin and I met at the Shoppette and got around $60 worth of snacks. Came home and got out the swimming suites and towels. Ok, my towel was actually MIA and so was Kevin’s swim shorts. The two of us headed to the BX real quick while my mom got the kids ready. Found him a set of swim shorts, but they had NO swim towels. UGH. So we head back home, pack everything up, load the van up with kids, and off we went.
Made it to the Cascades, which is really nice! It houses 5 indoor pools and 3 out door ones. Kevin took the three oldest while Mom and I sat with Derric. One of the indoor pools is a wading one with a small slide for little kids. Derric had a BLAST. He went down the little slide several times. But I will admit, it was a bit boring just sitting there watching him. We had been there for around 45 mins or so. The kids had gone down the black hole slide about twice each. We headed outside to see what was out there. But it was rather cold, so Kevin, mom, Derric, Xavier, and I headed in. Dokota and Kauchana stayed outside in the big pool. The big pool has this big float that kids were trying to climb up on, which didn’t look easy. It also had two slides, but the water was too cold, mixed with the chilly wind to warrant taking Derric down it.
Back inside, we all played in the main pool. Mom brought out her camera, and I got to scare her by taking the camera into the pool to take pictures of the kids. I managed to get several good pictures.
But we are home now. We spent about two and a half hours at the pool, two hours actually swimming. Poor Derric didn’t want to leave. Ok, non of the kids wanted to leave. Kauchana met a little girl there that was really sweet. Xavier the big flirt met up with a girl also, this one MUCH older then him, like preteen/early teenage. I mean, even blind as a bat that I am, I could see this girl without my glasses on… The kids had lots of fun. Mom even made it into the pool for some swimming.
In a way, I am glad the day messed up so we could do this. We had a really good time. Here are a few pictures of the day.
A simple stay home mother of 4 kids, three of which just happen to be husband's from his first marriage. A military wife that watches the world around her.





