Thursday, July 12, 2012

Visit with family & friends


Ok…since I’m so far behind with my writing, I’m going to combine the 11th & 12th into one post so I hope you can keep up…

11th:
We started the day with breakfast at a bakery in the city center & then some light shopping on our way back to the hotel.  We checked out & hit the road for Zürich.  Lee was such a gentleman & let me sit up front, which helped a little.  I was still a little woozy but it was nothing like the day before.  The drive was nice but it rained a good bit of the ride.  The scenery was still beautiful despite the rain.  We parked & then headed to town to meet a friend of Andrea’s for coffee.  After that, we just walked around.  The city was nice but not my favorite.  We did get to see a church whose stain glass windows were done by Chagal.  They were beautiful but I wasn’t allowed to take pictures =(  We didn’t spend too much time in the city because we had to get to Maur, just outside of Zürich, for a bbq at Ulrike’s.  Andrea & Ulrike have been working a ski camp for kids the past couple of years.  The group gets together once a year & it happened to be the night there were 3 Americans in the mix.  We had a great time.  The food was AMAZING & we were able to sit around a good old fashioned camp fire.  Of course, there were no smores but I wasn’t complaining.  At around midnight, we decided to call it a night.











               




12th:

We didn’t rush today which was nice.  We got up, dressed, & had a lovely breakfast before hitting road around 11.  Our first stop of the day was the Rheinfälle which are the waterfalls on the Rhine river.  It rained pretty much the entire day which was nice for me because that meant it was cool.  The waterfalls were really nice to see.  We walked around for a while & then decided to hit the road for Emmendingen.  I was apparently pretty out for most of the trip because we drove the Freiburg on the way to Emmendingen.  As we drove through, I woke up long enough to say, “Are we in Freiburg? Yay!” & then went right back to sleep.  It was a good day for a drive =)  When we got to Emmendingen, we had coffee & cake with Andrea’s brother & his family.  It was delicious!  Of course, we’ve sat in the car all day & then had coffee & cake so we decided it would be nice to walk around before we had dinner.  We walked up to the Hochburg, took some pictures, & then headed to town for some ice cream…as if we needed something else to eat but it was ABSOLUTELY YUMMY TO MY TUMMY!!  We saw downtown Emmendingen & headed back to the Ernst house for some dinner.  I cannot tell you how good the food was.  Jürgen is an anesthesiologist by day but should be a cook by night.  He was in charge of the Schnitzel & Petra, his wife, made some carrot salad that makes you want to “slap yo mamma”.  I ate a little more than I should’ve but hey…when in Rome!  We had a nice visit before getting on the road to Sinzheim.  Stay tuned for what happens next…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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