24 DEC 2013 - With no snow on the ground and great sunny weather outside, we ended up spending our day enjoying some of our favorite local parks. The park near Patch Barracks has a great man-sized hamster wheel. We had a great time spinning the kids back and forth until they nearly fell on top of each other.
Then we enjoyed a great park in Boblingen that has a rubber-band type merry go round. You wind it up and let it go and it spinns the kids around pretty fast for about three or four rotations. This is Eli's personal favorite.
Then we decided to go check out some castle ruins about 30 minutes south of our home in Rotweil. The castle was, as usual, perched atop a hill with a spectacular view of the surrounding area. There wasn't much of these ruins left aside from the re-constructed front gate and a nearby town that was closed on Christmas Eve (can you believe it?!?). ;)
When we got home, we figured it was time to light the reindeer candles our German neighbors gave us. Melting reindeer on Christmas Eve... what a great tradition!
We opened a few gifts on Christmas Eve. Grandma Johnson's gift was one of them. She gave all the kids awesome PJ's with matching PJs for the girls dolls and Eli's Build-a-Bear. What a blast!
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