Rammstein-Miesenbach, Germany
Today we woke up nice and early and headed outside into the *freezing* morning air. Luckily, that was just for a few moments until Erin backed the car out of the garage and her mom and I could jump inside. Erin took us on a tour of the base (by car, so we could avoid that pesky hypothermia) and then dropped us back off at home so that she could go to work.
Charlotte headed upstairs for an anti-jetlag power nap, and I headed downstairs to do some laundry and to get some client work done. (I can’t ever forget that I don’t have “real” vacations like “normal” people–40% of my waking time has got to be plugged into my laptop!)
After all that excitement, we headed outside to do some hiking. I showed Charlotte the “path” to the lake… In other words, we made our random way up the hills in more or less the same wandering direction as the first time I happened to come across the lake. We then tried to make our way back via the paved roads, which totally didn’t work out the way we’d hoped. However, getting a little lost let us do some sightseeing we wouldn’t otherwise have done, and we managed to find our way back to Erin’s house on our own, without having to resort to direction-asking.
While in the woods, we did not come across any strange creatures (such as dinosaurs or snakebots) but we did make friends with a few horses. We also found a poster detailing the larger creatures of the forest, which appear to include a dozen variety of deer/moose/elk/bison/goats.
As to that topic, have you ever run across wildlife when out and about? I want to hear your animal-encounter stories! =)
