A day at the palace...
Today we got up and headed to the palace in Schwetzingen (sans B, who is feigning a debilitating cold). I'm still a little jetlagged after getting back from the States on Saturday and hoped the sun would help jolt my internal clock back onto European central time..jpg)
The kids said they were hungry when we arrived so we put an American spin on a German tradition and had cake and Diet Coke. Emily's manufactured smile says all that needs to be said about her feelings for apple cake.
We've been to the "Schloss", or palace, many times but, for some reason, we've never made it to the back of the gardens to the mosque. This time we made a bee-line for it and were rewarded with a beautiful view. The kids played on the rocks on the other side of the reflecting pond for an hour or so. Today it made it up into the low 50's, so it was actually warm in the sun.
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We then hung out in the sun for a while before heading to Zum Ritter for lunch. I had a magnificent salad with roasted turkey breast while the kids devoured a plain cheese flammkuchen (a German {or Alsatian?} cousin of pizza).
Afterward, the kids played outside the restaurant for a while where there were some huge wood carvings on display. By the way, Emily and Sophia are getting pretty good on scooters.
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Today we got up and headed to the palace in Schwetzingen (sans B, who is feigning a debilitating cold). I'm still a little jetlagged after getting back from the States on Saturday and hoped the sun would help jolt my internal clock back onto European central time.
The kids said they were hungry when we arrived so we put an American spin on a German tradition and had cake and Diet Coke. Emily's manufactured smile says all that needs to be said about her feelings for apple cake.We've been to the "Schloss", or palace, many times but, for some reason, we've never made it to the back of the gardens to the mosque. This time we made a bee-line for it and were rewarded with a beautiful view. The kids played on the rocks on the other side of the reflecting pond for an hour or so. Today it made it up into the low 50's, so it was actually warm in the sun. We then hung out in the sun for a while before heading to Zum Ritter for lunch. I had a magnificent salad with roasted turkey breast while the kids devoured a plain cheese flammkuchen (a German {or Alsatian?} cousin of pizza).Afterward, the kids played outside the restaurant for a while where there were some huge wood carvings on display. By the way, Emily and Sophia are getting pretty good on scooters.
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