A week with family in France & Germany

This picture somehow got deleted when I was uploading. It should have followed the boat picture.


After working until 11pm at least one night, Ed and I finished one of our semi annual mailings so that we could go on a week's vacation. Ed's mom turned 80 in May and she was having her celebration with her siblings and some of her children in France where she grew up.

Ed and I flew to Baden Baden and were picked up by his sister Hilda and her husband Wes then we drove to Wissembourg, France and checked into a quaint B&B. After a nice breakfast of breads, cheeses, meats, juice, coffee, & fruit, we met up with Frank & Erica (Ed's parents), and Phil, Renee, Tyler and Nichole (Ed's brother and family) at the family farm in the Alsace. We drove about 2 1/2hrs north to a place on the Rhine where we boarded this boat and took a cruise on the river where there are a lot of castles along the Rhine.
The villages were all very quaint and there were many castles along the way. We cruised about 2 hours or so, stopped and got off the boat and had a nice lunch outside.
After lunch we got back on the boat and traveled back but it took more like 4 hours going back. The weather was great. Not too hot but nice and warm and sunny.

Some of us had some ice cream afterwards.

I have many more pictures to show but I'll go slow and do a day or two of our trip at a time!

Next up will be Erica's 80th bday dinner celebration......a tour of a local winery....and family day activities!