What we thought would be a relatively slow day compared to the last week or so ended up being rather busy. We started by touring the gardens of a mansion/castle close by called Castle Dennenlohe. It is currently owned (and lived in) by the duke and his family. The duke, who is a 7th generation duke, also led the tour. We thought we would see the interior of the castle, but we ended up seeing the gardens. They were beautiful gardens...see the pics...and it was apparent by how the duke talked that he was really into gardening...too bad we couldnt understand him as the tour was in German...our loss!
After the gardens we went to a castle, or at least then grounds of a castle in Sommersdorf, about 4km from Bergoberbach. This castle is privately owned but they rent out the gardens for special events, like weddings, parties, etc. This was the only castle we saw on this trip that had a mote around it.
After the castle we went to the Humpeneder family reunion at a park just outside of Sommersdorf. We saw Jurgen's mom and dad, his 2 sisters and brother, as well as his uncles. By the way, Jurgen, they all said hi! There was a large pond/small lake at this park, and Marcus, Michael and me went swimming. After we went swimming, we took a walk around the lake. Marcus told us that there was a section of the lake where clothing is optional. We found it! There was only one naked person, and I tried to get a picture, but it didn't turn out...sorry!
After the reunion, we went to Gerhard and Erikas property in the woods for an evening snack. Unfortunately the flies were making snacks out of us. We stayed there about an hour then drove a short distance to the "Bible Way" which was a walk where you would walk for about 1.2 miles and view different scriptures on stone posts. While we did this, Marcus wanted to geo-cache and there was a location on this walk. We got to the location, but never found any log or anything, so we walked bank to the cars.
For what was suppose to be a slow day, we took just over 200 pictures. No I didn't upload them all, but check out what I did upload.
Tomorrow we go to Hesselberg which is the highest point in the Ansbach region, then to a gardens that was suggested by thenpastors husband last week.
See our pics at...
https://picasaweb.google.com/kmcmullen81/McMullenTravel?feat=directlink
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