Triberg & the day of many trains

Day 7

Monday we woke up, had a decent breakfast at the hotel and checked out. Can’t say I was sad to leave that hotel! We drove to the city of Triberg in Germany to visit a German Clock Museum. We saw a ton of cuckoo clocks and even bought one for our home (thankfully for us they are shipping it to our home so we don’t have to haul it around). After that we decided we had to try the famous Black Forest chocolate cake while in the Black Forest so we stopped at a café and had a slice. It was pretty good but the chocolate cake part didn’t have enough chocolate flavor for me. The cherries were sour and yummy though!

This is the one we got!

We then walked up to see the Triberger waterfall which was just across the street from the café. We didn’t have time to hike all the way to the top so we just wandered around and came across a play ground and ropes course and played for awhile.

After that we were on a time crunch and had a train to catch. We drove to Freiburg and spent a good 30 minutes trying to find the place to return the rental car. I swear there were no signs but we finally found it in a parking garage at the train station- makes sense. By then we were super close on the time our train was going to leave and if we missed that train we would’ve had to wait a couple hours and extend the number of trains and buses we had to take. The boys and I went ahead to the platform we were supposed to be on while Brad was still working on the rental car return. The departure time came and went and still no train. It was such a huge blessing because had it been on time we would have missed it. Brad was finally able to catch up with us and within a few minutes the train arrived. We have Eurail passes so we get to sit in 1^st class all the time where they bring little snacks and offer food and drinks for purchase. The downside to all this is that we were going to a small town in France and it required six, yes SIX trains to get there. We went from Freiburg, Germany to Basel, Switzerland to Bern, Switzerland to Lausanne, Switzerland to Martigny, Switzerland to Vallorcine, France to Chamonix, France.  Fortunately our condo is right across the street from the train station so we were able to settle in quickly. We hadn’t eaten much because of all the train transfers so we set out on foot to find food in Chamonix and found a McDonalds. Quick dinner, Facetime with Grandma  & Grandpa and bed was in order.

I gotta tell you about the faith of a young boy. Once we finally got on the train we thought we were going to miss Tyler says “that right there was the hand of God” and it made my mama heart about explode with pride that he saw the blessing that was right in front of us!