Wild & Crazy Adventures with Jim and Aleycia

July 23rd: Our 2 year Anniverary

Woo-hoo! Today is our 2 year anniversary! Here's a shout out to all friends and family who remember that blessed 104 degree day! Ahh...seems like yesterday. Well, in honor of that, here's the happy couple 2 years ago...
and the happIER couple today...
Spent another day in the Rhine Valley. Lettie had a traditional German breakfast for us: bread, cold cut meat (ham assortment), cheese, and awesome coffee. We headed to Mosselkern where it was about an hour hike in the forest to Burg Eltz (the castle we toured). The hike was so beautiful. We met a couple of Americans along the way. This castle is medieval and was/is owned by 3 families. It took 500 years to build and 33 generations have lived in it. Parts of the castle are still lived in today. Of the areas we were able to tour, we saw an armory and different rooms (living room, bedroom, great hall, hunting room, housewife room, children's room, chapel, one of three kitchens, etc.) There were 20 toilets that all washed down into the moat--pew! In the hunting room were huge animals that the family had hunted in Alaska, Dakotas, etc.
We ate supper at Altes Haus (oldest house) in Bacharach, where we met Marline and Tony from Holland. I think they were our favorite people! We all sat at a table together (as people do in Germany, instead of each party having their own table). They were on a biking trip down from Holland and along the Rhine. Spent about 2 hours eating dinner and enjoyed a nice glass of the area's famous Riesling wine. Mmm...sehr gut!

posted by Aleycia & Jim @ 12:54 AM