Today is Sunday.
Normally on Sunday I get up at 8am and watch Sunday Morning on CBS (in my pajamas) and then have a rather slow and relaxed day. I tell you this because today was not a Sunday that my legs agreed to have.
We got up at 8am. OK there. We showered and got ready to go and were out the door by 9:30. We drove an hour and a half to meet Christine and her family for church and lunch.
It was so good to see them again. I don’t think they expected to see us again and it only took us four years to return! But here we are. Church was church – except in German so I have no idea what the standard topic of the lecture was though if the point is to meditate and commune with God then I did that. I also pretended to sing in German while diligently holding the song book to the correct page.
After church we walked back to the house and had lunch. Christine’s husband is an excellent cook and we had a pork roast with two kinds of potatoes and broccoli and cauliflower and a yummy salad. With gravy and a butter sauce for the veggies. I ate too much.
Then we piled into the cars and found an ATM machine before heading to the site-seeing tour for the day. We went to Stolzenfels Palace which is a UNESCO world heritage site and I really like world heritage sites. The guide book describes it as “The most beautiful building of the Prussian Rhine Romance Era.” It was very lovely.
But it was at the top of a really high hill. OK – it’s on the top of a ridge that overlooks the Rheine river. But they made me Climb the mountain. And it was cold out. And I was probably a tiny bit whiny. But we all made it to the top – mom and Christine chatted the whole way up. Nathan practically had to drag me up – I was not feeling energetic.
At the top we got the family rate and some English language guide books to use on the tour since they only have guided tours. I will leave it to you to find out more about the castle if you’re inclined to do so but I recognized some of the paintings and was all gaga for the furniture. Once you get inside the castle you are made to wear little felt slippers over your shoes. It was like most of us were skating trough the tour.
Nathan and I left mom in Christine’s care until Tuesday. We drove back to the condo and attempted to stop at the grocery store but it’s Sunday so it was closed. We got gas and a big bottle of cola light and are now watching BBC news.

So far we have seen three castles. I don’t remember having seen any on our last trip so were up three castles 🙂
I’m going to try to load some of they pictures to Pintrest later tonight if I can. Not sure what we will do tomorrow.