Well here we are. The last blog on Germany (at least for a little while).
We decided that one of the final things we would do before we left, was to get a cuckoo clock. Totally cliché, I know, but I'd been eyeballing them every time we went to the Black Forest and I knew it would've been one of those things that we would regret if we didn't do. So I found a little town called Triberg (about an hour train ride from us) where the world's largest cuckoo clock is located as well as the House of a Thousand clocks. Seemed like the perfect place to go for a cuckoo clock. It also had an easy hiking trail to Germany's tallest waterfall. So for a day trip, this was as good as it was going to get.
Anyway, here are a few pictures from our little day trip to Triberg.
△House of a Thousand Clocks. We went in but didn't by one because...△
△We found Oli's Schnitzstube! We ended up at this place and a nice woman walked us through the shop and explained the history and the work that went into producing their handmade cuckoo clock. We found one we loved (more on that in a future post), Scott met the master craftsman who worked on the clocks, and we had them ship it to the States since we would be lugging 6 years of stuff and kids through an airport. We didn't need the extra weight and worrying about the thing breaking on the way home.△
△Max ended up not liking the waterfall. "It was too loud."△
△We went all the way to the top and crossed a bunch of bridges.△
△I love European Squirrels. Especially now that we're back with the giant, gangsta grey ones.△
△A Nutcracker bird.△
△Max calls this train "Hero of the Railways."△
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△And finally, the last of our random, everyday things. Here we are in the garden outside of our flat.△
△Max told me this was right before he sprayed Zac in the face with his fire truck hose. He also informed me that we had to go back to his old castle (insert sad face).△
△These two were always playing with this bucket. We would fill it up with water from the stream behind the house and then it would be hours of entertainment. Rocks in the water. Water used for watering Norbert's flowers. Repeated over and over again.△
△In the left photo, the boys and Scott are playing in the spot where we had a garden last year and I successfully grew lettuce, cucumbers and potatoes, but failed miserably at producing carrots.△
△Photo on the left is my last kabob from the Turkish place across from the Radolfzell train station. △
△Our last day down by the lake before we flew to New York.△
Well everyone, that's the end of our Euro chapter and we're in the beginnings of the next. Now that we're back in the States, I'm excited to share our American adventure with our friend's across the pond. I'm sad to say that we're done with castles, motes and train rides, but we've got museums and zoos, parks, playgrounds and new holidays. Lots of new holidays. Like, Halloween. Max has NO IDEA, guys. So stay tuned. We're going to have a lot of firsts for the boys on this blog! Exciting stuff!
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