MV201 - Misty Mosel

I am a little behind on the blogging front. Yesterday was a transition
day- we moved from the Landal Hochwald Resort to the Landal Wirftal
Resort. I use the term 'resort' in a very general sense here. The
grounds are nice though, and our cabin is cute. The Bigs are beyond
thrilled to have a bunkbed! I am bummed that there is no Internet in
sight- wifi or otherwise. Plus, our data roaming that we used all
through Italy isn't working in Germany, so who knows when this will
get posted. But the biggest bummer is that our cabin REEKS of
cigarette smoke. Reeks. Not my favorite thing. But really, with the
amount of people who smoke over here, and the amount of ashtrays we've
had in our other places, we are really lucky that this hasn't happened
before.
Anyway, we spent yesterday afternoon settling in and playing with the
awesome Legos we scored the day before.
Today we headed over to the Mosel River and Cochem again. We took the
boat up to cute little Belstein, a teeny little village about an hour
up the river. We braved the cold and sat on the top deck on the way.
Hot Cocoa (and cappucino for me) helped take the edge off though. One
of our favorite parts was going through the locks and showing the kids
how they worked. Carter was a little worried, "No up up up!" but he
soon found out it wasn't "Deedee" (scary).
After a cold quick walk around Belstein, we rode back down to Cochem.
We sat inside this time!!!
On the walk through Cochem back to the car we spotted a little cafe
where the desserts looked too good to pass up. We stopped in and the 5
of us devoured 2 large pieces of cake and 1 warm apple strudel with
ice cream. It was all delicious and we ate it in record time.
Sometimes I wonder what people think when they see us!
On our drive home we stopped at a grocery store. It may seem that
grocery shopping is not reportable, but I assure you it is. For weeks
we have been 'grocery shopping' in teeny little stores that are
smaller than the floral section in Safeway. Smaller than half the
entry aisle in Winco. So when we walked in this place, and saw a
store that looked nearly as large as half a football field, we were
stoked! We literally walked down every aisle in the store. My
favorite thing there? AVACADOS!! Anyone who knows me personally
knows that I love avacados! I crave avacados! My kids are the same
way. Our house goes through at least one a day, but it isn't uncommon
for us to eat 2 or 3 a day, (breakfast, lunch, and dinner!). We
haven't eaten any the past 5 weeks. So tonight we had a mini Mexican
fiesta! Tacos, salsa, tortilla chips, and avacados! We are five
happy travelers tonight.
3 full days left and then a loooooong day flying home. Hard to
believe. We are enjoying our last days here, but fuses are much
shorter, and the conversations about home are getting more frequent.
Still on the European agenda- the Rhine River, and The Museum of
Natural History (dinosaurs!!) in Frankfurt. Also, we found a luge
course near here, so if it stops raining we'll do that too!

Auf Weidersehen!