another reason not to invite a minnesotan...

ITS SNOWING IN LUXEMBOURG.

Upon Jay and my arrival we were prompt to ask, "how often does it snow in Luxembourg?".  In response we got, "meh, about 3-4 times and mostly just a little at night but nothing big."  As it turns out, mom and pop Petermeier arrive in Europe last Saturday and this Saturday, we have SNOW and LOTS of it!  It appears that it is not stopping anytime soon.  Plans are to head to Trier, Germany today but the crazy Canadians and my parents have yet to show up to get me.  

We have been having a wonderful time since they arrived.  My dad has now seen 5 new countries!  Last Saturday and Sunday were spent in Geneve, Sunday night and Monday were in Berne, Switzerland.  We then travelled to Nancy, France in the afternoon and up to Luxembourg on Tuesday afternoon.  In some situations we have had a bit of a language barrier but we are gettin by!  Thursday morning it was off to Brussels we went for a couple of days and back on Friday evening.  Jay was happy to see us return so he could get a big pasta dinner at the Italian place before game day.  Today, Saturday, we have about 1/2 inch of snow and I suspect more soon.  Hopefully the game will still be on so that we can all see Jay play!  

All in all it has been a great trip filled with all sorts of great food!  We are getting really excited to take the train to Paris tomorrow morning for a few days!  Hope all is well back home and we hope you have the pleasure of the snow as well. ha!

Kels & J

(mom, dad, Don, and Margaret!)

As the weekend approaches...

hey guys!

The weekend is approaching and my parents are going to be here with their friends in about 2 days.  I will be taking the train from Luxembourg to Geneve to meet them, and I am excited to see the lake and the mountains again!  We will drive from Geneve to different places in Switzerland and then up through Germany to Luxembourg.  We will do some travels around here during the week, Germany, Belgium, all over Lux.  When the weekend approaches we will go to Jay's game Saturday night and then Sunday morning off to Paris for a few days!  While we are in Paris we will be able to celebrate Don & Margaret's anniversary, what a great place to celebrate!  The 2 weeks should be a wonderful time and I am really looking forward to seeing them.

Hope everyone is doing well at home and the snow/ice is melting in Minnesota!  We have included a picture of the sketch someone did of us in Milan, enjoy!  We look more our shoe size.

Jay and Kels

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Milano

Hey guys,

We had a great trip to Milano last weekend and got home late last night.  Jay and I were there for about 3 days and saw just about all there was to see...well at least by foot from our hotel.  We walked everywhere and not once took a taxi-cab, even though it was pouring rain and Jay was too tight to spring for a cab!  haha!  It was fine, Jay says that it helps build my character.  It really was a sight to see the Duomo Church in the Centre of Milan.  I have added some photos to this posting of Jay and I by the Duomo as well as inside there.  

The first day we walked from our hotel to the centre of Milan, took about 10 min, and went to the Duomo first.  We walked around the centre of the city and did some shopping in the area.  What an amazing place to do your shopping, beautiful people all around, beautiful clothes, expensive things, and best of all in my mind GELATO.  For good luck Jay and I rubbed the heals of our shoes on the "genitals of the Taurus Bull".  This is something that some of the people of Milan do everyday, you spin around 3 times for good luck, we thought maybe it would give us the best luck if we ate gelato at the same time!  We did some touring until about 6 pm and then decided that we were getting tired and hungry, so we walked and walked and walked to find something that was open to eat at.  Finally in an alley we found an Italian  restaurant that was open but no guests yet, we forgot that people do not eat until about 9 pm here.  By this time my puppies were screaming and I needed some food.  (Keep in mind that over here last weekend was a Holiday weekend, All Saints Day and All Souls Day...as well and Mondays people take off)  So it was busy around the city but not everything was opened for business.  Jay and I had dinner here and enjoyed some great wine, wonderful bread, pastas, and MANY laughs at our own expense.  I think that the help was happy to see our butts walk out the door.  (We were asleep by 9:30 pm....note we had been up since 4 am and the night before went to bed at 12 am)

Day two...we got an earlier start on the day from all the rest the night before and were to the Duomo by about 10:30 am when things just start getting going in Milan.  We had said the night before how much we really wanted to go up the stairs in the church and so we did.  Up to the VERY top of the Duomo and we got to walk on the very top roof!  It was amazing but kind of a scary walk up.  (My mom would not have liked that walk up AT ALL).  We took some great pictures while we were up there, and will post some on here.  We then walked up the Via Dante and saw more beautiful shops and had some great pizza for lunch and a caprese salad, a favorite of a Miss Lisa K.  Walking further up we got to see the Castle at the middle of the city, it was amazing to see and also know how many countries have ruled in the city.  Jay is a great photographer and took some wonderful photos while we were here, and we also used our tri-pod that Jays dad gave us, it worked great!  Then we walked to the Church of Santa Maria del Gratzie, this is where the famous painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo DaVinci.  We were unable to see the painting because reservations were booked out to see it for the next TWO WEEKS! WOW!!!  We did see the church itself though.  After this we decided to walk back to the Centre, where we then "got suckered" or thought it may be fun for the guy on the street to draw a picture of us....lets just say we look more our shoe size then our real age!  Its a great picture of us and this guy was a really great sketch artist.  Dinner at a Chinese Restaurant and again maybe too much wine, but lots of fun!

Day three....up again to make a plan for the day.  Jay had his 6 croissants at breakfast from the hotel and we were off in the rain to see a few things we had not seen.  Jay bought an umbrella from the "guy on the corner" and thankfully it made it the rest of the day.  The Saint Ambriaggo Church is the one we saw right away in the morning and it was Jay's favorite.  We lit a candle in this church it was quite beautiful and also had a gorgeous courtyard, where we got one of the best pictures of the trip.  After this we walked some bit further to another church and courtyard.  This day amounted in wet shoes, tired feet, soaking suitcases, and thinking we took the wrong tour bus to the airport.  Even though the whole day was spent in the rain we still had a great time together.  

Love

Kels & J