Ronneburg

Our family took a trip to explore a nearby town with some friends called Ronneburg. This town also happens to have a castle, which was built in the 13th century - marking 775 years ago this year. It took us all but 45 minutes to get there and this weekend they were hosting a huge medieval festival. And it was pretty funny to be parked next to our friends - just imagine 2 U.S. cars (two Virginia plates to be exact) parked side by side in a field of European cars. :)

A lot of people arrived dressed up in medieval customes. We walked around for awhile, bought some yummy pretzels (with euros of course!), saw great views from the top tower of far off Frankfurt and other towns after a somewhat frightening climb, as well as views of hot air balloons riding in the distance. We're still trying to erase from our memory the images of nude people soaking in a washbin as we were walking around the various venders outside of the castle. Things you don't normally see happening from where we're from but, hey, we're claiming it as another European experience! :) We ushered the kids past there pretty quickly to say the least!

But all in all, it was a fun afternoon! We managed to also run into a few friends from our neighborhood in the midst of our wanderings around the castle. It's always nice seeing familiar faces here in Germany. We also took this trip to venture out on one of the last beautiful days here. In just a few short days from now, long go the nice 70 degree weather and in comes the beginnings of Fall and Winter. I believe the kids had a good time, although there's usually LOTS of walking involved when we go somewhere in Europe which is not their favorite thing to do, but it's neat to go see the places we've only read about! It's so beautiful here anyways!! So walking we will continue doing! :)

{View of the town from our parking space}

{You can see the city of Frankfurt FAR off in the distance...}