Ashley's Visit...

I was so lucky to have Ashley come visit me for about a month over Christmas break. I can't believe it was a month ago yesterday that I picked her up in Leipzig and now she is back at Naz finishing up her senior year.
I will summarize her visit with some photos...

Our baby Christmas tree.

Visiting Rabenstein.

Chemnitz Tierpark

Making a new friend.

Christmas morning. 

The most un-white Christmas I have had.

Going to Augustusburg.

Augustusburg

Hiking up to the Bastei Bruecke....

...we're pretty attractive humans.

The Bastei Bruecke

Wasserschloss Klaffenbach

This was our first time together having our own real adventures. I can't wait to go on so many more together.
For the next 167-ish days it will only be Skype adventures. :)

Catching up...

... 3 months later...

Thanksgiving time...

Little Germans making Hand Turkeys:

5a

5b (I spend most of my time with these little devils)

6b

 Thanksgiving dinner at the Jacobsens' in Berlin.

 Got to see the greatest man I have ever known!

Then came the end of November...

We finally got Semester Tickets as "guest students" at the University.

The Christmas tree was brought into the center.

We got snow. 

Then it was December in Chemnitz...

 Bergmanns Parade

 Karl watching the parade. 

 Pyramid in the city

 Christmas Market and the Old Rathaus

"The Pirate" he makes horrible sounds aka music.

My Mom/Best Friend visited me :)

My mom made her first ever trip out of the USofA (excluding Canada). We were able to spend some time in Chemnitz and then visit Dresden, Berchtesgaden, Füssen, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. Here are a few pictures to summarize the places we went. 

The view from my apartment

The Schlossteich in Chemnitz

Kaylee and her roommate Patricia with Mom, Buggy and I 

Chemnitz Tierpark

Look who is excited to eat German breakfast

Big door in Dresden

 The Elbe in Dresden

 The Zwinger

 Königssee

 Hiked our little butts off to the Eiskapelle 

Absolutely  clear water 

Clear blue river in Berchtesgaden 

Marienbrücke

View of Hohenschwangau 

 Neuschwanstien from the Marienbrücke

Which way do we have to go?

Heidelberg- the Neckar

Wine barrel held over 220,000 liters of wine

Berlin.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

East Side Gallery

Brandenburger Tor

Berlin Hauptbahnhof 

In front of the Reichstag

I had a really great 26 days with my mom. She is my best friend and I am so glad that she finally got to come see the place that I love so much.