I left the protection and hospitality of the Pfiefers this morning. They were wonderful hosts and I will miss them but it was time to head on down the road. It must be raining because we are sad to leave here. This is our first day of rainy weather but it is only misting heavily.
We drove for quite a bit and actually were only about a half an hour from France! We teased that we need to head over the border to get our passports stamped! Stories were told all 'round and we all had a great time in the van laughing and sharing. Our group is getting along quite nicely and since we mostly do not know each other, the stories are new and interesting.
We reached our destination which was an open air museum in the black forest called Vogtsbauernhof. It is a collection of buildings from the Black Forest region from 1590 and forward. They took the homes, barns, and other buildings and tore them down and reassembled them in this are for the public to view. It was really neat walking in and through the very buildings were people once lived, cooked, worked. It was extremely interesting and we could have stayed there much longer but it was time to head for our first hotel stay of our trip. Man Gin, you should have seen the colorful sequin, bobble, ornament, pearl, jewel, mirror encrusted traditional wedding hats we saw today! Made you want to create one immediately! Wow! See picture below.
We checked into the Park Hotel in Villingen and walked the town for a bit. We have a city tour scheduled or tomorrow and mostly we were looking for a place to have supper. We found an Italian restaurant that had promise and the Miller's and Sandy and I headed inside. I had a yummy homemade cheese ravioli and then back to the hotel we went planning to blog.
But alas, no internet so we scurried around looking for an internet cafe to at least report to our loved ones we are still alive and well. We ended up finding a place but it was a little scary and we did not stay long! I am turning in early tonight tonight try to catch up on sleep. Sleep!?!?? Ya right!! I can sleep when I am dead! There is way too much life to live right now! Bye bye! Deb
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