Day 12

Today, we took the kids sledding at the local ski resort. We rented a plastic toboggan that had metal runners on the bottom. The sledding hill was pretty small, but the snow was packed down hard and we actually got going pretty fast. Abby had a great time. She went down once on her own and did fine. The second time down, she decided to turn around and wave at us. Bad idea. The sled flipped upside down and she went flying. After that, she wouldn’t go alone, but had tons of fun going down with one of us. Livi sort of liked it, but didn’t want to go as much as Abby.

After sledding we got lunch for Abby at the ubiquitous McDonald’s (Abby calls it Old McDonald’s) and went back for our afternoon siesta. In the evening, we ventured into town and found a traditional Bavarian restaurant for dinner. Mary and I had ham hocks and dumplings with bacon dressing cabbage. The girls shared a sausage hot pot – literally a pot of hot water brought to the table with three different kinds of boiled sausage in it. We went back to the resort to go swimming and hot tubbing for the last time. Abby had made a little friend named Isabella the day before, and she was ecstatic when she found Isabella at the pool. We stayed until almost ten o’clock and the girls had a great time. Isabella’s eleven year old brother played with Olivia most of the time, so we just relaxed. Olivia has become a real flirt, and she seems to especially like teenage boys already.

Hanging out in the Lobby before we leave for Rothenburg

Really likin' that lobby...

I heard everyone around saying "S'gott" instead of the usual "bitte" or "hallo" so I asked a local and found out that it's a Bavarian saying meaning, "God's greeting". Now you know some Bavarian trivia!