More Rothenburg and a castle!!

(We are now in Berlin, but our internet connection has been the pits, so I haven't been able to blog!!! So, here we go!!)

This is our second day in Rothenburg! We decided to walk outside of the outside walls ...

If I were an enemy, I would really have a hard time climbing these walls. Yikes.

Gorgeous houses outside the city- could definitely live here for a couple of days, months, years?

After our long walk, we came back to the center and heard "When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way?" from West Side Story?? There was a visiting high school band from Kansas, and they were really good.

Funny combination- Rothernburg/West Side Story/Kansas/Germans...

Maddie's favorite were the dancers.

Our cuties.

Totally enchanted.

I think I blogged about climbing this tower- this is a picture of it- doesn't seem high, but it is about 6 inches wide up there all the way around, and every time we talk about climbing a tower the immediate response is "NO!!!!"

There has been some TASTY ice cream along the way.

THE SUN IS OUT! It was overcast/rainy 99 percent of the time, and SO nice when we felt the rays!

Our last walk outside of Rothenburg.... we will miss it :)

We then took a quick 45 minute drive to Castle Colmberg which was converted to a hotel.

It was a welcomed sight when we saw it on our drive in.

The remaining wall (much smaller than Rothenburg).

The countryside is really beautiful here- it kind of reminded us of Italy in some places.

Our window from the outside...

and from the inside...

They have a beautiful courtyard outside where we ate dinner, and a playground right beside us- it gave us a nice break for us to eat dinner while they were happy playing.

The playground.

I'm going to blog about this later- but I bought these play puzzle things for kids while traveling, and I give them 6 stars! They have saved us on the plane, trains, restaurants. They are the best.

Steve had an out of body experience with this dessert - says it was his favorite of all time- Rasberries/rhubard stew with poppyseed ice cream. I agree with him- it was pretty yummy.

LOVING the teeter totter.

The light at the castle before the sun went down was beautiful, so we took some family photos...

The sun setting over germany. Gute Nacht!