Well, I should update the rest of our trip. I will try to keep it somewhat short!
Monday night after we picked Nate up we went to the town of Braunschweig for dinner. We sat outside with the view of the palace there. Very cool! We then headed back to the hotel and Nate and Uncle Doug went in the pool...then got yelled at for being in after it closed! Oops!
Tuesday Uncle Doug and I went to Wittenberg. It was about a 2 hour drive from Wolfsburg. Here we went through Melanchthon's house, Luther's house and saw the Castle Church where he nailed the 95 theses. We went back to pick Nate up and ate dinner at our hotel.
Wednesday Nate only worked until about 10:30, so we checked out of our hotel and headed south towards Heidelberg (where we stayed the last 2 nights). We made some stops along the Fairy Tale road. This is the area where the Grimm brothers lived and worked and wrote all their fairy tales. We stopped in Hannover-Munden which is famous for all of its half-timber houses. We then stopped in Kassel and saw Hercules statue and one of the fairy tale castles. We didn't have enough time to go through the castle but could see it from the statue. We then went on to Heidelberg. We unpacked a little and then headed out to walk around the town for a while.
Thursday we headed out to see the Heidelberg Castle. It was a little bit of a walk from the hotel, but not too bad. We toured the castle for a while and then headed back to the hotel. We stopped at a cafe on the way back and had something to eat. It was pretty humid out, so we wanted to go swimming when we got back to the hotel. When we got back, I found out I had forgotten to pack the bottoms to my bathing suit:( So I took a shower instead and Nate and Uncle Doug went swimming. I guess I would have fit in with no suit on in the sauna...but I didn't think that would be a good idea! We went to a nice Spanish/Mexican restaraunt for dinner and then walked around for a while before we headed back to pack up for our trip home.
Friday we left the hotel around 9:00 a.m. and headed for the airport. All our flights went great and came in a little early. Uncle Doug was on a different flight home but came in under an hour after us. So by the time we brought our luggage to the car we could drive around and pick him up. It worked out quite nicely. We then headed home to get the kids. Nate was drifting a little too much on the road so I drove the last 100 miles or so. We got the kids a little after midnight and were home by 1:00 a.m.
