After much flying back and forth, packing up a U-HAUL with my Mom and unloading LOTS of boxes and furniture I finally got my computer plugged back in and dug up my little drive with a few photos of the fairy tale tour on it. We had a really fun time and would not mind one bit if I were Rapunzel for a year or so locked up in that tower of hers!
The view from that place was so peaceful and restful to me... just looking at it again after the hustle and bustle of New York and driving across the desert makes me want to say, "Aaaahhhhhhh..."
There were lots of lovely views out of little windows from quaint hotel rooms.
And in this castle apparently answering the question at the front desk during check-in, "Is that Ms. or Mrs.?" with a "Definitely Ms." and a bat of the eye-lashes was the right thing to do since the man asking set up the banquet room downstairs usually reserved for weddings just for us! score. The kids had sooo much fun- as did the adults.
'Quaint' and 'picturesque' sum up the entire trip. We visited Hansel and Gretel's and Snow White's forests, Sleeping Beauty and Rapulzel's castles, Hameln to see the Pied Piper's town, and the house where the brothers Grimm lived.
Being back just over a week I miss it already. Particularly going to New York City right after where I walked by a few schools with not even one single tree or blade of grass growing on the entire campus. There was so much greenery in Germany even in the big cities- it would be nice if we could incorporate more of that into more of our cities here.
Here's one for the humor files. Who can imagine a group of moms sitting around in a 'kegel arena' all doing kegels together! hahahaha... Something my midwife would be real happy about I'm sure! "Did you do your kegels today??"
