Castle Hunts and Bluegrass
June 16
Had a great time visiting with my friends from Philippine high school days: Cindy (Montgomery) and Mat(hew) Wyneken who live in Freiburg, Germany. (Matt likes to be called Mathew now but since I kept forgetting, I’d end up always saying it like two words…”Mat hew.”) They have three lovely kids – Cody and Niki (about 8 and 12) and a daughter, Rosalee, with epilepsy (4 years old).
Decided I was going to walk as much as possible since I could do it in shorts & tank top, and desperately need to lose some weight and get in shape. It felt so good to be outdoors wearing whatever I wanted. I walked from their house to Freiburg one day (a 45-min walk) and several other walks.
Mathew said he heard rumors of a castle somewhere up on the wooded hill near their apartment. I talked the kids & Mathew into going on “The Castle Hunt” with me one day. We found a hiking map on the internet that showed where the mystery castle ruins were and took off on the adventure on Thursday morning. Niki, who had been excited about the hike, complained a lot about being tired and her stomach hurting. We mostly ignored her thinking she was being lazy and melodramatic. After about one and a half hours of hiking, we finally saw the castle, up on a hill. It was bigger than we expected with tall stone walls (we thought we’d be lucky if it had 3 foot high walls left). There was a nice old chateau restaurant we had to pass to get to the trail up the hill. Niki complained again about being tired & her stomach hurting so I offered to buy her a soda before heading up. We went inside, bought the soda, walked out past the guest diners and she threw up…and threw up…and threw up. I felt bad. She of course wanted to go home, so we called a taxi and never made it to the top of the hill to see the castle. Big disappointment to be so close, but what can you do?
Mathew is in a Bluegrass band and they managed to sneak me into a big, private gig that had two stages and about 8 bands that played over the six or so hours. Again, it was so great to be doing things I couldn’t do for the last year, like listen to live music.
Had a great time visiting with my friends from Philippine high school days: Cindy (Montgomery) and Mat(hew) Wyneken who live in Freiburg, Germany. (Matt likes to be called Mathew now but since I kept forgetting, I’d end up always saying it like two words…”Mat hew.”) They have three lovely kids – Cody and Niki (about 8 and 12) and a daughter, Rosalee, with epilepsy (4 years old).
Decided I was going to walk as much as possible since I could do it in shorts & tank top, and desperately need to lose some weight and get in shape. It felt so good to be outdoors wearing whatever I wanted. I walked from their house to Freiburg one day (a 45-min walk) and several other walks.
Mathew said he heard rumors of a castle somewhere up on the wooded hill near their apartment. I talked the kids & Mathew into going on “The Castle Hunt” with me one day. We found a hiking map on the internet that showed where the mystery castle ruins were and took off on the adventure on Thursday morning. Niki, who had been excited about the hike, complained a lot about being tired and her stomach hurting. We mostly ignored her thinking she was being lazy and melodramatic. After about one and a half hours of hiking, we finally saw the castle, up on a hill. It was bigger than we expected with tall stone walls (we thought we’d be lucky if it had 3 foot high walls left). There was a nice old chateau restaurant we had to pass to get to the trail up the hill. Niki complained again about being tired & her stomach hurting so I offered to buy her a soda before heading up. We went inside, bought the soda, walked out past the guest diners and she threw up…and threw up…and threw up. I felt bad. She of course wanted to go home, so we called a taxi and never made it to the top of the hill to see the castle. Big disappointment to be so close, but what can you do?
Mathew is in a Bluegrass band and they managed to sneak me into a big, private gig that had two stages and about 8 bands that played over the six or so hours. Again, it was so great to be doing things I couldn’t do for the last year, like listen to live music.
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