Quick Recap

hey everyone!!!
well on thursday was robbie's 26th birthday!!!!! on wednesday i arrived and set up the presents for him. which included a 19inch flat screen tv for his bed room, an engraved mug from things remembered, three picture frames i built and painted, a beer glass from hallmark (one of my favorite stores), and a small photo book of our adventures so far. i did take him to dinner on wednesday night to the melting pot in reston which he totally love. on thursday we packed up and head to luray for his bday camping trip. noreasterns i thought were spost to stay on the coast and not come to the mountains! well we got up there and it was all clouds on skyline drive. which of course ment rain. we set up his small tent (which we were planning to use for storage and emergancy incase friends who didnt rsvp (which ill get to later) showed up. and then set up my tent in the wind and rain. well after all that headed to luray to get a huge tarp to put over my tent. it took us over an hour to get back to the camp site. bc of the clouds on the mountain of skyline drive. yuck!!! so we just went to bed. slepeing in the middle of a hurricane is not something i recommend! i can camp dont get me wrong and robbie is an eagle scout. but all my god! i didnt get any sleep all night. listening to the wind wip the tents and the tarp that was over our eating area, and then fear of wild life freaking out and running through the camp site. so friday we woke up wet and cold. kiki and torey were due up that night and knew we had to make a decision about that. so we headed to the ranger station and found out 60% chance of rain every day this weekend and lows in the 40's. yuckie! so we packed everything wet up in black garbage bags and headed home. :(. on the way home we decided to invite kiki, torey, stephanie, john and robbies mom over saturday night for a bday dinner. which worked out for the best. i love my potential future sister in law bc she was still willing to come up and camp in the rain for robbies bday :). but she didnt have to. so lastnight we had the dinner party. which turned out really well. and let me just say cleaning a one bedroom apartment is hard. what am i going to do when i have a whole house to do and kids running around! so all turned out well for his bday even though it wasnt exactly how i planned. we are heading to bmore for the rest of the day to dry out the tents and stuff for next month. we are planning to try again for camping on skyline to see the leaves change and taking chase for the night. :) ill have pictures up soon. i just hope robbie was happy with his bday. next year ill be planning better for weather!

in other news...germany is counting down!!! im so excited! we are now thinking of going to berlin for a few days, frankfurt for two days, and the rest of the time in munich! kiki is helping me plan days out and what to see and book a hostel (yea thats how its spelled. they arent hotels. ill explain later) for berlin. robbie and i are starting to save. since all our gifts to friends and famiy will be from germany since we are getting home on christmas eve! im very excited and i know robbie is to. his aunt and uncle are excited to welcome me into their house and family which is relaxing me about going more and more. lets not talk about his father right now. l

ok thats all for now. have to get ready to head home with robbie following behind me. :) cya!