Happy May Day

May 1 is May Day here and a big German holiday. All the German schools are closed and everyone is off work. The night before is something of a "Goosey Night" where the kids go out late and spray shaving cream everywhere, throw toilet paper, and do "tricks" on people. One small truck near our house (it's so small it only has 3 wheels) was picked up and physically moved to the middle of the street during the night.

Anyway, Evelyn's Kindergarten was closed so we spent the afternoon with friends in the schloss in town. It's walking distance and was a beautiful day to be out for lunch with my favorite little girl.

Here she is, not roasting marshmellows, but schtockbrotbaken (stick bread baking). She (I) held her stick over the fire and baked her own bread. Some people (the typical thrifty Swabian), brought their own bread and their own stick to roast, rather than pay the 2 Euro ticket.



And then we had lunch at a cafe down from the schloss. The entire menu was just coffee, cordials, and dessert... but we managed to eek out a lunch of tomato soup and strawberries.
Her drink is an apfelshaftsorle... apple juice with bubbly mineral water. She always orders this and never drinks it because it's too bubbly... good luck around here finding flat tap water. It doesn't exist.

Evelyn and Gabe have and Eis after lunch.


And here's a view of our town of Waldenbuch from our walk back home. We live on one ridge, there's another ridge across from us and the town sits down in the valley.