Wutha Farnroda

July 3: Don’t remember what we did???? I do know that we slept in because we were tired after our long day the day before.

July 4: Hung out at the house. Thought about our friends on the strand at the beach having a good time playing volleyball ☺

July 5: Today was rainy again! We went on a hike because we were starting to get cabin fever! We packed the backpack with some poncho’s and some extra jackets just in case the weather changed (because the weather changes so fast here). Our plan was to hike to this tower that the neighbor, Gerd, showed Eric on a recent bike ride. There are a lot of back roads (dirt roads etc.) going from town to town. On a nice day you can see the tower in the distance, but not today (only until we got closer to the hill it is located on top). Along the way we were passed by a tractor (actually 2) full of cow poo! Yuck! It wasn’t so bad until we came up to the cow poo dump! There was a giant mountain of cow poo in the middle of this field. Let’s just say we walked very quickly past this area. Once we got closer there were signs indicating which way we were to go (important later in my story). So we hiked about 4 miles to the Alexander’s Tower. It was really cloudy but E and I started to climb up to the top (not too high), but we could not make it all the way to the top. The wind was blowing very hard and we got scared so we stopped before we got to the top, took a couple pictures and quickly went back down.
On the way back it started to rain, so we busted out the ponchos! It was really pretty fun hiking in the rain; it reminded me of being a kid. On the way down we took a wrong path (figured that out later:-) Just when we started to get a little worried about our location we ran into a paved road with a sign saying Mosbach. This was the town just across the meadow from Wuth (our town). So we started down the road (understanding we were on the far end of the town where the road started! Anyway it took us about 45 minutes longer to get back to the house. We did the whole hike in about 3 ½ to 4 hours! We were completely exhausted. We grabbed pizza at our favorite place in Seebach in the evening and called it a night. Although this time we got shots on the house from the owner of the pizza place! Very cool.

July 6: Today Eric and I mowed the grass! Eric actually had to mow the lawn after I did it because the lawn mower was not working really well (and the grass was like a jungle). Then E built a wall behind the garden house in the back yard. It looks very nice! Randy went to the store to stock up on drinks for the party tomorrow night. Al I did was pack Eric and I for our upcoming trip to Spain and France since we will be busy up until we leave. All in all it was a very productive day at the house in Germany.

July 7: Today is the day of the BBQ here at the house in Germany! Randy has invited about 24 people! So we did all the yard work yesterday, so today we have time to figure out were we are going to put everyone! Eric and Randy picked up a bunch of food that Silka made (friend of Randy’s). Randy also told us that his friend Sven (who would be at the party) invited us to fly with him in his plane to Berlin in the morning!
Eric was the master griller. The menu consisted of pork, pork and more pork! We had, of course, Thuringen Bratwurst, and marinated steaks. Gerd, the neighbor helped with some of the grilling since there was so much food. Everyone brought a food dish, so there were plenty of great tasting treats. A couple of guests brought musical instruments too. We had a great time listening to Reggie play the drums and Jorge play the guitar. The party went on into the wee hours of the morning. E and I didn’t go to sleep until 2 AM. This was pretty late considering we had to get up at 8 AM to get to the airport for our little flight to Berlin and back!