Oktober 11 - Baden Baden

Woke up early to go for a walk through quiet Triburg up to the waterfall before frühstuck. After the walk had frühstuck and met two sisters from America! They were hilarious and we had fun sharing stories. One was from just outside Carmel Indiana and the other from New Jersey. We actually went to Residenz museum the same day in München and probably walked right past eachother!

We all went to the House of 1000 clocks and looked at Cookoo clocks....and bought one! It is soooo beautiful!! They ship and everything. Sooo cool! We said auf weidersehen to them and started our drive up to Baden-Baden.

Baden-Baden has been a famous thermal bath relaxation town since, oooohhhh, around 0 A.D. when the romans found the thermal water to be rejuvenating...Marlena Dietrich used to hang out at the casino here. We found our room (tried a few places to no luck...we ain't sharing a bath with anyone!!!) at a cute place that also has a cafe and confectionary shop downstairs.

Went for some Wurst & Kraut (for Scott) and Käsespatzle (for Ryan) and then took a 3.5 hour relaxing time at the Friedrichsbaden...they have a regimine where you do a certain something for a few minutes...shower here for 2 minutes, sit in this sauna for 10 minutes, have someone scrub you with salt and then soap for 20 minutes....all nude. No towels, no suits. And in the middle is a gorgeous late baroque room where the sexes mix for some mineral baths. By that time we both even forgot the world still existed (to steal from a famous Mark Twain quote about Baden-Baden). It was fantastic.

We actually just finished that and found this internet cafe while driving around earlier letting people gawk at our car. Old men love it. We had this guy in >Triburg talk to us for about 5 minutes about how schone it is...he only spoke German and thought we were Dutch. Haha!

Off to the castle tomorrow night where they likely will not have internet so the next update will come on late Friday or Saturday when we are in Berlin after dropping our baby off....we are still having an amazing time!!!!!!! We have about 550 pictures and 2.5 tapes of footage to show off!

Auf weidersehen!