We woke up this morning pretty early so that we could get going on our
bike ride through the Black Forest! Woah! This is so beautiful! It
was SOOO much fun to go on our bike ride! Right behind our hotel is
part of the Black Forest, and the hotel rented bikes there at the
front, so all 6 of us (my parents stayed behind and watched Stockton
for us!- SOO nice!) hopped on and headed up the mountain. It was just
a pretty simple ride on a dirt packed road, and we rode up to the top
of the mountain right there by us, and reached the cutest little
restaurant/bed and breakfast. There was also a church right by it,
and the persons house who lived there- probably. It was SOO
beautiful! Wow! We went to ride back down and saw a little single
track that was going below the road and really wanted to take it, but
didn't want to get lost. So we stayed on the road, and Cole and Rocky
took an upper track that was right there by the road- because we
figured that would probably hook back to the road that we were on in
the first place. It was such a nice ride down through there, and
almost to the bottom, we saw my parents and Stockton coming up the
road! When we were talking to them, Cole and Rocky popped out right
below us! So crazy! So, they rode back up towards us, and we decided
to go back up and ride down the lower single track again because we
had spotted it the whole way down. I'm so glad that we did! It was
SOO much fun! All along the way, there were little work out stations
for people to do if they wanted. So, we stopped and played a little
bit along the way. There was one that was a log set up like a
teeter-totter and we were playing and launching each other off, and we
were filming Court and Rock doing it, and just as Rock went to launch
Court up, she slipped off of the log and totally somersaulted
backwards off of the log onto her back! It was so awesome! It was
hilarious, but Court totally got hurt. It was such a bummer! She
wasn't hurt real bad, but she started crying- which she never does-
and it was so funny. That sounds bad, but all of us were laughing,
and she was doing a mixture of laughing and crying all at the same
time. She turned out to be alright, but it was hilarious when it
happened. No more launching for us!
We made it back down the hill in time for breakfast- which was
delicious! It's fun to eat at these hotels. After breakfast, we
packed up and hopped into the car! We traveled a little while to the
city of Titisee and went on a shopping spree! The town was so cool
and it is right on the Bodensea. I think that is how you spell it.
Probably not. :) It was so beautiful though, and this is where the
Cuckoo clock originated! So, there were tons of shops with a whole
bunch of cuckoo clocks, and christmas stuff- wood carvings of the
nativity, and the pyramid carousels. We went crazy! Cole and I got
another cool Nativity thing, a spinning pyramid carousel, and some
cute ornaments for the kids. We also got some stuff for Cole's Mother
and sisters for watching our kids. It was really fun!
As soon as we were done there in Titisee, we hopped back into the car,
and drove for like 5 hours back to Munich to the Mission home. We
didn't get anything for dinner tonight, because we were in the car for
too dang long ! We got stopped a bit because of traffic, and we also
lost our GPS! The power cord broke on it, so we had to run it on
batteries for as long as it would run, and it didn't run for too long,
so we were back to the map system. Thank heavens for GPS! We got
back to the mission home and frantically started to do laundry and
things like that so that we could be ready to leave early in the
morning! We are having the greatest time ever! Seriously...this is
the trip of a LIFETIME!
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| The Bodensea (?) |
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| Cuckoo-clock capital of the world!!! Apparently. :) |
