Saturday, June 22, 2013

Friday in Frankfurt cont.....on our way to Berchtesgaden

Friday afternoon we went to Mia’s play.  Her class had presented Sleeping Beauty earlier this year and were asked to perform it again for a theater festival.  It was a little theater in Bad something.  We walked the park and got the little kids Ice cream while Eva helped the class get dressed in their costumes and make up on.  When it was time to go in, the little kids decided to sit on the first row bench.  We were just two rows behind them.  All was well until the wicked fairy scared Luzian.  She was a great little actor!  He cried and one of the other mothers scooped him up before David or I could get to him.  I didn’t recognize her from the BBQ and she obviously wasn’t going to surrender him to us.  He finally got his point across to her that we were OK, and we took the kids out side to wait.  We chatted with the other parents we had met and told them about our time in Berlin.  The teacher from the school that we asked where Mias classroom was, was very relieved to see us with Eva and when she introduced us she stated we had already met.  I guess that would be pretty creepy to have foreigners come looking for a child at the school
After we unloaded the costumes at the car we walked around the town and all the shops.  I’ve decided i rather like paved sidewalks and streets.  Sturdy shoes will be a must for CJ.  The cobblestone walks and roads are murder on your feet.  We got more ice cream and then headed back to the car.  I tried a dark chocolate this time and it was fabulous!
Friday night we played games with the kids.  We learned a new game that we will have to see if we can get in the states.  It’s sort of like settlers of catan in the sense that you build cities and roads, but you build it one card at a time like dominos.  The sides have to match. 
CJ learned how to work the german washers and driers and we did all of our laundry and packed for our next little trip.

We did have one thunder storm, and yes, if you leave those awesome sky light windows open, your bed does get wet!  It was also ridiculously hot while they had to be closed.  I’m so grateful that David stayed away long enough for the rain to stop so he could open the windows.  It quite curious that the windows here are open and there really are not any bugs.  The only time we have had mosquitos was at the mission presidents home. 

On our way to Berchtesgaden

We got up this morning to finish packing and head off for berchtesgaden Eva made a wonderful german breakfast of fresh rolls, honey, meats cheeses and drinks for breakfast.  She also packed us a nice lunch.  David D. had gone to the bakery early just for me and bought my favorite bread to take along with us.  They also bought new bread we hadn’t tried before.  It was a sunflower and pumpkin seed bread.  One of my favorites so far.  Eva packed the last roll in our lunch….she is so nice. 
David took us to the Karben train station by their house and we caught the S6 into the Frankfurt Main station.  We took the Ice train to Wurtzgerb and then changed trains to a regional train that will take us all the way to berchtesgaden.  It’s supposed to be much cooler in the next few days.  The regional train is much slower and stops more often.   The country side is georgous.  It’s so green and looks just like pictures from the story books.  The sky looks dark so I’m sure we will get more rain this weekend.

Our plans are to spend two nights in Berchtesgaden and then one or two nights in Munich.  We are excited for this part of our journey.  We are supposed to have Wifi at the hotel, so hopefully we do.  The total trip today is about 7 hours.  We are almost to Munich and I’ve typed most of the way.  We are becoming more accustomed to the movement of the train and tolerating it much better now.  We’ve never boarded with an empty stomach since the first time.  That was a  mistake.  Cj is catching up on much needed rest and David goes in between snoring and reading his book with an occasional game on his phone.  I’ve loved the mandatory down time.  What a great excuse to blog, catch up on journaling, reading scriptures, pondering life all intermixed with doing just plain nothing!  I find it quite relaxing.  The train was delayed because of flooding on the first part of our journey today, but I said the biggest prayer because there was only one connection to catch and we only had 20 minutes built in to the schedule.  By the time we got their late, the arriving train was also 20 minutes late and so it was no problem!  THANK HEAVENS!!!!  We should arrive in Berchtesgaden just before 5pm local time and we will walk to our hotel.  I hope it looks something like the photos, because if it does we are in for a real treat.  We won’t be able to do much tonight as most things shut down around 5-6pm, so we will rest and enjoy the views, get some dinner and be ready to go in the morning. 

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