Trip to St. Radegung

We hit the road today without directions (because the visitor's center opens at 10a) and with a not very helpful GPS. Getting out of the city was really hard, but Sue navigated us to the correct road via the iPhone (gotta love those portable wifi devices!). The tram to the top (1460 meters) was really impressive and the view was fantastic.

At the top of the mountain there were some cool playground toys that the kids liked.

And there was also a cool cart system were you rode a cart down on a rail (braking, if you need it!) and then it linked into a chain to take you to the top (like the ascent on a roller coaster). Anyway, with 14 rules printed in German I'm glad all I needed to know was "push lever forward for 'fast' and pull lever back for `brakes.'" It was a blast and I wish the kids would have wanted to do it so that I could have ridden all day!

We had a good lunch in a village and the way back and stopped at two large grocery stores. We are coming to the realization that there are multiple items we will never get here! But that's the subject of another post :-)

Russ