Baden-Baden

Day 6

The fancy hotel breakfast was way too expensive for us at 15 Euros per person so we decided to grab something at the train station. We ended up getting McDonalds and since it was Mother’s Day they were handing out roses to all women. It was nice and I enjoyed my rose throughout the rest of the day. Here we took a train to Baden-Baden in Germany. This time our rental car was a Skota Rapid. It was nice but didn’t have the fancy GPS like the first car so we had to rely on Google Maps. We visited Altes Schloss first which are castle ruins. It was nice to walk around and had great views of the Black Forest. My silly boys watched Jurassic Park on the plane and somehow the Black Forest was turned into a make believe T-Rex cage. We made jokes about that the whole time and it was fun. 

From there we went to the Merkur Funicular which was super cool. We took this funicular straight up a mountain where there was a meadow, café and little playground for kids. We ate at the café where Trevor had sausage and fries, Tyler had his first soft German pretzel and Brad and I shared two meals which consisted of two sausages, fries, and a salad and “homemade cheesenoodles” which was a delectable homemade macaroni and cheese. We also got an Apple Streusel with vanilla ice cream to share. After eating we let the boys play for awhile to burn some energy. They had this very tall and curvy slide that was a pretty rough ride (according to the boys) and would likely never have been allowed in the U.S. The weather was perfect, sunny and warm, which is great since we expected rain. Hopefully this weather stays!

We checked into our hotel which was a Holiday Inn Express and had the tiniest room for four people I’ve ever seen! We left the boys there while Brad and I went to a spa to celebrate Mother’s Day. It is a traditional Roman bath and was quite and interested experience. We feel blessed to have such wonderful kids who we can trust to stay out of trouble. They watched a movie and were both asleep when we got back. It was a long day and I was feeling it. What was my Mother’s Day gift? Swollen cankles to rival any pregnant woman, and a cold. I’m tired, stuffy and miserable but determined to have a good time.