It started out as a slow day. We got up kind of late, had breakfast and lingered around the house for a few hours. Gerhard got home around 2 and we had a birthday lunch for him...he turned 59. The family got him a stand alone stove, unfortunately they have to send it back because it was damaged in the shipping. After that me, Tammy and Manu went into Ansbach to walk around the old town area. We stopped at a cafe and had coffee ice cream. Christina met up with us at that point, along with her mother.
Later that evening, we had our Oktoberfest at the Humpeneder's and dressed up in our dirndls and lederhosen..all of us. We got many pictures of us dressed in traditional German clothes...Jurgen here I come. After a dinner of pancake soup, white brats and wieners, potato salad, a blood sausage and vinegar salad, a pasta salad, and a Black Forest cake. After we ate, Manu brought out a small keyboard and I played and sang Happy Birthday, a German birthday song, and then Amazing Grace, which is Gerhard's favorite song. After I finished playing Amazing Grace I saw tears in his eyes. After we packed and loaded up the car, it was time to say good bye, and as I expected, it was teary. Tammy and I will sure miss our German family, and they ate already thinking of what to do on our next trip to Germany. Some of them said they are going to make the trip over to America, and I hope they do. They are a wonderful, loving family who considers me and Tammy one of their own.
New pics will be posted with our final blog post coming in a few hours.
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