Day 7 in Germany

On day seven we walked to the neighborhood playground and then went to the Theresienstein in Hof with Manuel's dad. It's full of beautiful gardens, pathways, playgrounds and then you hike a steep hill to an old castle. There is a restaurant there and a nearby zoo.

We had a lot of fun and then had tasty Italian food for dinner. See the pictures below!

Gave Paisley some fun hair!

Cousin Nalani lost her first tooth! The tooth fairy gave her an American dollar!

Oma serving breakfast

Park in Oma's neighborhood

Such a kid at heart

Playground bully

One of our yummy dinners from my mother-in-law.

A cool flower I have never seen before!

A cool outdoor park/restaurant/flower garden/castle place in Manuel's home town. There were no bathrooms though and our kids had to pee outside or hold it.

Walking to the labyrinth

This is where we had our engagement pictures taken 13 years ago.

We always thought this castle was super old. Turns out Manuel read the sign for the first time in his lifetime and learned that it was built at the end of the 1800's to serve as a tourist attraction. Not a real castle! Bummer!

According to Cambrey this is the Rapunzel tower

View from the top of the castle

FIRSTPICTURE

Love this picture of our kids!

Opa and the kids

Manuel's mom orders this takeout a lot when we visit. It's yummy Italian food!

We each get out own pizza!

Cambrey's pizza

In Germany no one drinks water (the kind we know). Not because the water is bad (it's perfectly good) but because they just prefer flavor. Instead they buy cases and cases of carbonated juices, sodas and seltzer water. It stays at room temperature and everyone just shares bottles and leaves them lying around like this. When you want a drink - you find the closest bottle and drink from it. You can't get normal still water at a restaurant or ice! If I wanted water I had to get seltzer water which is very carbonated. Out in public I had to fill up bottles from bathroom faucets as there are no drinking fountains because people don't like to drink water. It was over 100 degrees while we were there and no one has air conditioning over there. When you are thirsty you grab a warm bottle of soda. I sure missed the luxury of ice, filtered water and refrigerated drinks.