Checked it off the list

So we're a good five hours from Duesseldorf staying in the world's most tilted hotel and we go down for breakfast and who should be there? A room full of people from ISD. There were 3 different families from Duesseldorf who had come down for the weekend to take the kids to Legoland. One family was headed back, but the other two were going on to Salzburg. It is indeed a small world after all.

After breakfast, we went and climbed the 768 steps to the top of the world's tallest church spire at the Ulm. Maddie made it through the first two levels and then Skip and I took turns heading all the way to the top. I've added it to my list of "I've done that now."

The hotel is this fabulous mixture of ancient and modern. There are beams here that date back to the 1400's, yet there are very modern bath and light fixtures mixed in. Also, the bathroom has heated floors, which I find quite nice. However, Maddie thinks the floor is too hot and tonight we found her standing in the bathtub brushing her teeth!

Today we also went to Nerhesheim, where Skip's Oma Johanna (the woman from whom Maddie gets her middle name) lived and we went to Herbrechtingen to see his Aunt Rosl. I have more pictures, but am having difficulty uploading today. Perhaps I can post more tomorrow.




Maddie and Skip at the Danube



Ulm



Maddie and Skip outside the Shiefes Haus



Maddie and Skip on the enclosed porch of the Schiefes Haus that sits over a running creek.



Yes. We climbed to the top of this!