Schwarzwald Vogtsbauernhofe

We spent the day at an "open-air" museum in Gutach. Different houses and structures built in the 16th and 17th century have been moved to this museum for a walking tour of how people of the Black Forest lived at that time.

Evelyn and Alex in the outhouse...

A typical house, built into the side of a hill, included the stables for work horses or oxen in the house (pee-eww!).

We learned how the mill worked, the how the women baked bread in the baking oven, separate from the houses, and the blacksmith's shop along with many other historical houses and working buildings.

We have learned the secret to the European picnic lunch: whole fruit taken from the hotel at breakfast, paired with fresh bread from the bakery across the street (there's always a bakery across the street). And a playground:

After lunch we realized the Germans certainly got something right when they thought of the Biergarten: an outdoor picnic area that serves beer built beside a playground. This is ingenious.

After the biergarten, we headed to the Rodelbahn, an alpine slide that was fast and fun! Here's me and Evelyn as we went down "Schnell! Schnell!" (fast, fast!)