The Professor and Mary Ann

We got up in our quaint hotel and came downstairs to perhaps the most sensational breakfast we've ever had, and that is saying something. But we've never had a candlelit breakfast before, or one with personal jars of fruit salad and bottles of juice. Rob and I had looked at the menu at the Weisser Bock, but the fixed price menu was waaaaay above our budget. Too bad, because it was all Spanish-German, and we are Spanish-German foodies if ever there were some. So at least we got the swank breakfast offerings. The kids enjoyed it, but they probably would have picked Krispy Kremes or Count Chocula over the cold cuts and croissants and muesli if given the choice. We went to church at the LDS ward and had a good time. We came back with all of the students to this restaurant Rob had picked out the day before called Perkeo on the Haupstrasse: Perkeo was a jester with a legendary drinking ability. We had our own room and we got to order our own thing (usually for budgeting and serving...

Since I've already 'fessed up to my traveler's gout, it should come as no surprise that I wasn't ready after a day like the Bodensee to come home and pack up for an overnighter to Heidelberg. We thought about sending the students off by themselves. Rob thought (as he often does, I suspect) about leaving me and Joss home. We thought about catching the next plane home. In the end it was less trouble to follow the plan. So we packed our toothbrushes and our electronics and headed out to Heidelberg. We arrived just in time to catch the students coming off the train and get them situated with maps and transportation cards. Then we met them at the hostel and got them checked in. By this time Joss was begging to go to the hotel and take a nap -- not normal at all. We finally made our way to the Weisser Bock, which is right in the altstadt above a restaurant. When my parents came and toured Europe, my father said he was "quainted out" after staying in so many pokey ...