Isle of Mainau or The Island of Flowers

After the GPS found our hotel nicely, and found us a quiet, empty, Italian restaurant, we all squished into our dreisbettezimmer (3-bed-room; no, not 3 bedroom, but our 3 bed room) the four of us and read the rest of the night.

In the morning when our plans changed from 'walk to catch the ferry' to 'drive to the next town and catch the auto ferry' I started to get nervous again. My questions to the poor innkeeper, who happened to speak English: An auto ferry? Is this complicated? Will I understand the signs? Where do I find it? Does it cost a lot? (coincidentally, I was short on cash) How will I get to the island after I get off the ferry? and on and on. But as you can see, the GPS actually had the auto ferry in it... and we found it just fine, and it was only 10 euro, and it was easy!

The Island was so fun with a petting zoo...


And really cool flower statues...

And of course, the Spielplatz that's always SOOOO edgy. Careful! You might get wet!


I'll give you one guess which kid wound up waist-deep in this water??


But the Germans think of everything and there was a clothes dryer nearby just for such accidents. I got to spend some quality time together with Alex while we waited for his pants, socks and shoes to dry.

{Alex, looking of my shoulder at this post nervously asked: "Um, who are you sending that to?" Me: "Oh, just Nana. Is that okay?" Alex: "Yea, that's ok, but don't write anymore."... Does this make me a bad mom? I'm pretty sure he'll laugh at this too when he's 37, right?}

It was a great couple days just me and the kids (and the GPS).