We started at a coffee shop, where we ate the most incredible apple...thingy. It was a kind of cake, sort of. It was not overly sweet, and went well with the coffee. True to the prediction that our lack of German knowledge would not slow us down, the waiter took one look at us and promptly brought us an English menu. After we were joined by Margaret and Paul's daughter and her boyfriend, we went to Heidelberg castle.
Here is the castle.
We got to see a huge wine cask. We were very impressed, and took several pictures of it.
Soooooo big!
Then we went around the corner and saw a cask easily ten times the first cask's size! That king must have required a ton of wine. As the story goes, they drank twenty liters a day...each. Of course, wine was not as strong then as it is now, but still!
That was the small one, actually. Here is the big one!
Shout out to Dr. DLeitz (aka Dustin)! We thought of you as we went through the museum of pharmacy! It was very interesting to see what has (and has not) changed about medication.
By then we were getting tired and also soaking wet from the rain, so we went back to Paul and Margaret's beautiful house. Margaret prepared us the most delicious meal. It started with soup with stuffed pasta, then spetzel with snitzel and YUMMY gravy, followed by a pork dish and a salad. Once we were so full we thought we were going to explode, Margaret brought out the pudding.
Once we were so exhusted that we could not think, they asked us what our travel plans were for the next day. We mentioned the possiblity of a side trip to Prague, which sparked shocked looks and fast discussion in German.
Tomorrow: "Oh, we've been to Prague. Well, not been to Prague been to Prague, but we know that whole Prague Thing. " (Kicking and Screaming)
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Does mom have your journal link? Don't forget my kindereggs! And when you eat ice cream, eat extra and pretend that it is me eating the ice cream. I expect long blogs about the ice cream from Italy.
hmmm....i didn't mean to post anonymous
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