Catmull's in Europe

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Leaving the Netherlands we stopped by Burg Eltz in Germany on our way to Frankfurt for tonight. It's a great castle that was occupied up until just recently.
The family waiting for the tour of the castle. Unfortunately you couldn't take pictures inside the castle itself.
The courtyard inside the castle was pretty cool. The was a very narrow/tall castle.
Afterwards we grabbed a meal.
On the way out we got a great picture of the gateway/castle.
Brecken helped Mitzi on the way back to the parking lot.
Ian was already to play knight after visiting the castle and getting his own shield and battle ax.
Once we got to Frankfurt and checked into our hotel for the night, Mitzi, Ian, Brad and I went across the parking lot to McDonalds to grab a bite to eat.
Brad even gave me a smile, although it took about 10 pictures to capture the smile.
Ian had a great time in their play area. They had balls, baskets, bikes, a maze, etc. It was alot of fun for ian and Mitzi.

8-2-10 Monday Since heading to England, we are off the Saturday to Saturday stays and travel schedule. Today was a travel day. We are heading from the Netherlands to Germany near Frankfurt on our way to Switzerland. We drove to Burg Eltz which was a remote castle not too far from Koblenz. It’s a very different castle. Three different Eltz families lived in the castle, and the castle is kind of build in a triangle around a center courtyard with each side of the triangle being for a different family. They gave a great tour in English that was really interesting. It was neat to see some of the features of the medieval castles. They way the toilets were built to dump out the bottom of the castle were pretty interesting. They had a neat treasury and armory as well. After we finally made it to Frankfurt and checked into the hotel, Brad and I took Mitzi and Ian across the parking lot to McDonalds. They had a spicy burger made with Tabasco sauce that was really good. The play place had a small indoor basketball court, a climbing play-place like McDonalds back home, and a race course/obstacle course for kids. It has a timer so they can race against their previous time. Ian kept doing it and going for a better and better time. Mitzi loved playing with the balls and climbing in the play-place.

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