Only a few months to go for us here in Europe. We're now into the double digits and before we know it, we'll be back in the US. Very exciting yet sad at the same time. Before we leave this land of compact cars and large plates of schnitzel, we've got some serious traveling to do. Starting next week, we start our European farewell tour with stops in West Ireland, Amsterdam, Bruges, Blk Forest, and Italy.In the mean time, we've been knocking around Germany making the most out of this prolonged winter. We did our sixth Volksmarch in the medieval town of Rothenberg ob der Tauber a couple weeks ago. We've taken most of our friends and family there and it never fails to impress. We stayed in an Army base in Ansbach just outside of Nuremberg which happens to be the city where my Uncle Shelby was stationed in the fifties as a tanker. It's hard not to feel a connection to this place for that reason. Anyhow, Rothenberg was great (as always!) and the pictures simply don't do the place justice. Take a look:
Luke andI muggin it up for the camera
Check it out goth kids: A creepy cemetery...sooo cool!Last weekend we headed north for to a former monestery for an Easter Egg Market. Germans and other Northern Europeans are famous for their ornate Easter eggs so we were anxious to check them out. To simply call them Easter eggs is an injustice...these were individual works of art. Many were painstakingly painted by hand. We even broke down and picked one up for our son, Luke. If you look close enough at the pix below, you'll find an egg with a couple ducks...that's it.
Aside from the market, we were really impressed by the grounds of this place. No captions necessary...the pix came out great!
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