Destination Munich

On Thursday, we were off to Munich. On the way there, we stopped at Neuschwanstein Castle, one of the most popular castles in Europe. The crowds and parking shortage would attest to that. You have to wait in line until someone leaves and then you can enter the parking lot. Crowds asides, it's a beautiful place worth seeing.

Upon arriving in Munich, we checked into The Palace Hotel a beautiful boutique hotel.After we were settled into our rooms, we took a leisurely stroll over to The Hofbraukeller Restaurant Und Biergarten and enjoyed a delicious German meal and tasty beer.

Isn't this such a beautiful place to enjoy your breakfast...it's the hotel garden.

Old Fribourg

On Wednesday we went to the old part of Fribourg (which originally was walled in) and walked along the Sarine River (the dividing line of French and German speaking Swiss) crossing Fribourg's last remaining wooden covered bridge.

We walked up and down many narrow, steep streets and saw many beautiful Renaissance fountains and buildings...it was definitely stepping back in time.

Unfortunately, the good pictures are on my camera and I don't have a way yet to get them to my Picasa web album...should be able to do that after we get back from Rome on Wednesday.

We had dinner that evening at Molino's, a lovely Italian restaurant. I did snap a photo of dessert at Sucre Sale (there should be a thingy over both E's but I can't get the French keyboard to work in Blogger) which was just down the street from Molino's.

Mexican Food Swiss Style

I was prepared for the different ethnic foods to taste possibly unusual here. While we were sitting at the gate in Atlanta, we were talking to a lovely Mother and her two kids and getting a wealth of information that she had gathered in the three years that the family has lived in Switzerland.

She said had related that you may be eating a taco but it was not going to taste like a taco because they will use different spices.

Sure enough, the kids wanted to take us to their favorite Mexican restaurant . If I would have walked in with my eyes closed and kept them closed until my first bite...I would have sworn that I was having Indian food...very good Indian Vegetable Fajitas.

Please forgive the quality of the picture.

I Love Switzerland!!!!!!

Third attempt to post this...now back from Munich.

Here's the post that I thought I was posting two days ago...it ended up on the blog that I do for my guild...just to jet lagged!

As I sit under the apple tree in the kids yard, I'm serenaded by cow bells...love that sound!

That's me yesterday, again under the apple tree, taking a cat nap for about 30 minutes (after being up for 30+ hours). Took a walk in the canton forest behind the house before the nap, went out to eat, took another walk in the canton forest after the nap.

After being up for about 37 hour...I had to sleep.

An Ah-ha, Aahh, Or A Plain Old Duh Momment

So I was straightening up the kitchen today so as to not be embarrassed when my friend Gail comes over, while we are in Switzerland, to take care of Reggie. She's an extreme neat nick and I know she would never think less of me for not being as tidy as she is, but I still feel compelled to step it up in the cleaning department.

Anyway, I took some extra can goods down to the basement to put with the rest of the can goods and I noticed that a couple of the cans were upside down. I was going to put them upright when it dawned on me that I could actually tell what was in the cans! I started flipping the other cans over and OMG!, what a difference. Notice the cans on a back row where you can only see the work "Geat" with not a clue as to what's in the cans.   Aa-ha....aahh.....DUUHH!!!!

Next, I had to get my camera's data cards full of videos and photos cleaned up and ready for some major picture taking while we're in Europe. That took several hours and it feels good to have that taken care of.

Wisconsin Camping

I arrived in Wisconsin early Friday evening and headed straight to Jelly Stone in Caledonia. My son and his family we already there and the camper was all set up. It's not my idea of camping but it's great if you have kids camping with you.

In the picture, you see Cindy Bear at our camping neighbors site delivering milk and cookies. DIL didn't make those arrangements...fortunately the grand kids were at the playground or holy hell would have been raised.

Friday was hot and humid, but Saturday was extremely comfortable due to a breeze blowing in off Lake Michigan .

I've been at my daughters new house since Sunday...it's very peaceful here.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

Hope everyone has a safe and fun filled 4th celebration!

On Friday morning, bright and early, it's off to Wisconsin for me!