Germany: Day 3!

I didn't sleep eveyr well last night, but I got up and tried to get some pictures loaded. I ate a bowl of oat-meal this morning with raisons :) and then I did a little bit of reading for a while. Around 11:00am we left for Felsberg, Germany which is a good hiking distance away from where we are staying. We started off down the hill again and got onto a trail. IT was a little colder today and the wind was blowing. The sun was hidden by som random clouds, but was showing some promise of coming out completely. As we walked up the trail I was amazed at the really tall pine trees! They were all over the place and made for some cool pictures. I will try and get some up soon, but I'm having some trouble with them.



We hiked all the way to Felsburg and it was nice to look at the differnt buildings through the towns. We passed a house with a bunch of chickens in the back yard and that was interesting. The houses were higher than the street so there was a wall that blocked my view from close up. We stopped t the bank to get some money and then we took the last climb up to Felsberg. We then stopped and talked to the bus driver. It is really difficult not being able to speek the language because we have to use sign language and talk in fragments. It was a long hike up hill to the small little town of Felsberg, but we made it finally.



There was a really cool arch that was the main entry way to the town and I took some pictures of that. There was a small garden right before we went in side with a black fence around it. On the small black gate there was a really cool metal rose and I took a picture of that. Hopefully I can get it up soon! We hiked up the road a little ways and stopped at a little Cafe called "Pippifax Cafe und Eis". It was a very nice place, but small. They had some pictures of Bob Dillan up and the guy there who spoke english pretty well was really nice and was pretty funny. We had a home made german pizza and then we each had Crepes for dessert. I had an apple sauce type crepe that was pretty good. We then walked up to see the castle that was on the top of the bluff. IT over looked the Neckar River and the dam we were at the day before which was really nice, because I felt like I knew where I was. The castle ruins were really cool and there was a lot of different sheds and stuff. Down by this gift shop there was also this really neet sculpture that looked like four wavy golden ribbons that were vertical. And it also blew in the wind and turned around, which was rather cool.



We went into the castle and had to pay to look around. There was a lot of old barrals and plows and even a gauntlet. There was a large tall tower that we had to climb up to get to the wall that you could walk across. There were 98 stairs to the top and it was a continuous spiral. And after running up to count the stairs I ran down it and got really dizzy from looking at the stairs. :P

The view from the top of the tower was amazing and you could see the dam clearly (where we were yesterday) and I could also see up the three different valleys. It was really cool to be up that high. I took a picture of myself so I'll get that up when I can. We then walked back down from the castle and went to a gift shop. It was over 300 years old and had some amazing wood work. The floor boards were all stained and very creaky. We walked to the back of the town and found a trail that wound down the bluff in a zig-zag pattern and took us all the way back to where we started. It was a very beautiful walk and I enjoyed the really flat and wide woods. The woods here are very unlike the woods in Winona. They aren't very dense and they are really wide open! It would make some good running trails. We walked for a good two or three miles.... or like 5 kilometers. The trail came out by the highway and we walked down it for ways and came to a pasture with goats. There were three of them and they were below us eating some grass by this pond and then looked up and "baaahd" at us. We called back to them and they turned and started walking towards us. We had to keep walking forward and calling o them to get them to come up to us. We finally got them t come really near to the fence.

My grandma had by now walked really far ahead so my grandpa and I hurredly walked to catch up. We passed a speedometer that told us how fast we were walking... and I turned around to see how fast I could run. I didn't get full out, but it said I was going 20 mph... of course it's probably 20 kilometers per hour :P So I'm not as fast as I thought I was going - haha

We made it back safely and I had jsut sat down to start typing when my cousins got home. I sat down and played some guitar hero with my cousin Emily and played on expert for the first time to "What I've done" by Linkin Park. It took me three tries, but I finally got it! We are sitting around right now and we are getting ready to go to "The Mill" which is a restaraunt out in the country. I will definitely write more later after I go. For now that has been my day so far! Stay tuned for more :D

My adventure continues with... Deutschland: Tag Drei Weiter (Germany: Day 3 continued) :)