Rothenburg

Chris and I went running in the morning through the gorgeous paths beside the Johnson’s house.  The area they live in is so beautiful.  It would be fun to have such great running paths near us.  At noon, we picked up Katie and Megan from School and dropped off Luke and Matthew at a sitter’s house.  Then the five of us headed down to Rothenburg.  Despite our forecast for rain all week, we had done really well with the weather.  This day was only supposed to be a 20% chance of rain, but we got %100.  When we first got there it was raining pretty hard so we headed straight for the covered city wall and walked a good length of it.  Rothenburg is incredible.  Chris laughs at how often I used the word “charming” in Europe, but it was so CHARMING.  I can’t think of a better word.  Perfect?  Picturesque?  Quaint?  Yeah.  All those things.  It was so fun and the rain didn’t really bother us too much.  It eventually let up and we wandered the charming streets.  

 Lisa warned us that the famed Schneeballen was little more than piecrust balls, but we ended up getting one anyway… because that’s what you do in Rothenburg.  I kept wanting it to be filled with rhubarb or peach filling.  Turns out I just wanted a pie.  They should really consider pieballen, though.  I think it would sell very well.  

Chris went to the Medival Torture museum by himself.  The rest of us opted for photography.  Katie is becoming quite the budding photographer.  She really is a miniature Lisa. 

 We had a delicious German dinner at a restaurant near the main square and got out just in time to join the night watchman’s tour.  The night watchman was funny.  It’s amazing that he’s been doing it for 20 years… two times a night for twenty years.  He had the whole shpeel down, great stories, fun facts, and dry jokes.   It was a great day.