Catching Up

I was trying to think of what the important things were that happened in the last month, so I could catch everyone up on what's been going on in our lives. The highlights seem to be a good place to start:

- I had my birthday. Brad bought me a beautiful antique (1920's) aqua marine bracelet and necklace. After we got them, Brad was looking online and found that aqua marines used to be worn by ancient mariners because they believe the stones would bring them safely home (how apropos, isn't it?!)













- I had another Navy weigh in & physical readiness test (had to diet hard again, need to lose weight!)















- We had my birthday dinner at "Leonardo Da Vinci" - an excellent Italian restaurant.









- We went to the flea market every Saturday.







- We went back to the Castle Hollenzollern with Ty Kopke, who was in town from Camp Lemonier, Djibouti














































- We went to Castle Michelfeld, which has been turned into a hotel & restaurant, for lunch and then went to Heidelberg shopping
















- We walked around Calw












































- Found my lost bracelet

















- Finished knitting my first sweater























- Found a cool basket, about ottoman sized that fits all my yarn, bought fabric and recovered it

Amazing Findings

Wow, I've let almost a month go by without blogging! I have some catching up to do!

I had something pretty amazing happen to me last week. Here's the story...

Brad bought me a diamond bracelet about 5 or 6 years ago for Christmas. I loved it, so I would wear it all the time. The Friday after Thanksgiving I had to work - because it wasn't a normal work day and because I didn't go anywhere else I remember the date clearly. Anyways, when I took a shower that morning I had my bracelet on. That day I walked the dogs, worked and nothing else. When I took a shower the next morning...yes, I know you can guess where this is going...my bracelet was GONE!!! We looked all over. I asked around at work - I'd only been two places. I kept looking for a while and asking but after a week I figured someone else had just found a nice gift for their sweetheart :-( So after a bit, I pretty much wrote it off and figured I'd never see it again, much to my vast disappointment - a $600 bracelet lost because I didn't stop wearing it when one of the two clasps stopped working - completely my fault.

Wednesday, Brad joined me for lunch. After having Subway sandwiches we walked over to the shopette (it's a small convenience store on base like a 7-11). The guy behind the counter was having problems with his computers and told me the credit card thing wasn't working. I said it was okay because I had cash so he rang me up. Brad commented that the cash register thing that shows you the total wasn't working - and being Brad he looked at the wires behind the computer on the counter to see if there was a loose wire. While looking, he found, hanging off a knob on the computer - MY BRACELET!!! Brad says "isn't this your bracelet?", I said "my god - it is", the cashier said "when'd you lose it?". After I told them I'd lost it months earlier, they let me have it. Someone had turned it in months ago - a while after I'd stopped asking around. I guess my bracelet was meant to be mine!

Easily the best day of my week!