Fussen to Nuremburg
Today we covered a lot of territory. We woke up on our lovely lake and had bauernfrische milk for breakfast. We checked out of the hotel (I did it all in German -- YAY!) and went down to the lovely park at the lake. We rented a paddle boat and paddled around with our children complaining the whole time about who got to steer and how unfair their life was (they should have gone to bed at about four in the afternoon yesterday after so much alpine hiking) which was punctuated only by Rob disrobing and jumping into the lake. He said it was pretty glacial below 6 inches or so.
We left Fussen/Weissensee in a blaze of glory, with Rob making a 9 point turn and backing out our ice cream wagon of a van onto the main drag. Nine people all in a van careening around Bavaria -- you have got to love the picture! The low point was when Sebastian decided just before I had to start navigating that he had to go to sleep and had to sleep on my arm (only he was in the middle row and I was in the front). Poor poor kid. I promised him a nap tomorrow, but that's not really what you want to hear when you're two!
We returned the van and made quite a parade of people and luggage down the three blocks to the train station where we made it onto our train with 5 minutes to spare! I do have to say that the kids are phenomenal about pulling their luggage around and not getting lost. They also did a great job keeping each other entertained on the train. Liam taught Maddie how to make flip-o-rama pictures in a notebook and then they played High School Musical Playmobil (you have to give them all points for creativity). Sebastian and Tomas took turns being charming and not so charming on the train ride, but we did make it into town and took taxis to our hotel.
We're staying just below the castle in Nuremburg in a very nice hotel and we and the Isaaks seem to have the only family rooms in the American style, with doors that open between them. Our kids like them so much that they mounted a huge fit about leaving again and going to dinner, but Rob declared that "kids lost, parents won" and we got to go out to a beer garten right on the river. It was next to a famous bridge (the Kettenweg) which I took kids onto while we were waiting for things -- first Will and I counted the plethora of spiders on the bridge (more than one hundred) and then Maddie and I watched the bats come out and eat the flies later on. We heard that there was going to be a lunar eclipse tonight, but our moon was covered by clouds at the appointed time, so we didn't get to see much.
In other news, we found out that Rob's grandma Dee passed away in Minnesota today. She had fallen and broken her hip last week and then had several other complications that we had been keeping up on sporadically. It was odd, but I thought on the train that Grandma Dee probably wouldn't be making it with us to Nuremburg, and that was just about the time that she died in Minnesota. We're so glad that she got to come out and see everybody this summer in Utah, and that we got to all talk with her and hug her. Now we're glad that she gets to see her husband and her daughter and the rest of her family, but we'll miss the woman who would take out her dentures and see how many Oreos she could stack in her mouth!
We left Fussen/Weissensee in a blaze of glory, with Rob making a 9 point turn and backing out our ice cream wagon of a van onto the main drag. Nine people all in a van careening around Bavaria -- you have got to love the picture! The low point was when Sebastian decided just before I had to start navigating that he had to go to sleep and had to sleep on my arm (only he was in the middle row and I was in the front). Poor poor kid. I promised him a nap tomorrow, but that's not really what you want to hear when you're two!
We returned the van and made quite a parade of people and luggage down the three blocks to the train station where we made it onto our train with 5 minutes to spare! I do have to say that the kids are phenomenal about pulling their luggage around and not getting lost. They also did a great job keeping each other entertained on the train. Liam taught Maddie how to make flip-o-rama pictures in a notebook and then they played High School Musical Playmobil (you have to give them all points for creativity). Sebastian and Tomas took turns being charming and not so charming on the train ride, but we did make it into town and took taxis to our hotel.
We're staying just below the castle in Nuremburg in a very nice hotel and we and the Isaaks seem to have the only family rooms in the American style, with doors that open between them. Our kids like them so much that they mounted a huge fit about leaving again and going to dinner, but Rob declared that "kids lost, parents won" and we got to go out to a beer garten right on the river. It was next to a famous bridge (the Kettenweg) which I took kids onto while we were waiting for things -- first Will and I counted the plethora of spiders on the bridge (more than one hundred) and then Maddie and I watched the bats come out and eat the flies later on. We heard that there was going to be a lunar eclipse tonight, but our moon was covered by clouds at the appointed time, so we didn't get to see much.
In other news, we found out that Rob's grandma Dee passed away in Minnesota today. She had fallen and broken her hip last week and then had several other complications that we had been keeping up on sporadically. It was odd, but I thought on the train that Grandma Dee probably wouldn't be making it with us to Nuremburg, and that was just about the time that she died in Minnesota. We're so glad that she got to come out and see everybody this summer in Utah, and that we got to all talk with her and hug her. Now we're glad that she gets to see her husband and her daughter and the rest of her family, but we'll miss the woman who would take out her dentures and see how many Oreos she could stack in her mouth!
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