Last Pre-Baby Trip Day 7 (26 April, 2007)

^ Statue of the Lorelei - St. Goarshausen, Germany ^

Another late-ish morning and we left the hotel by 10:30.

Today we had to drive down to Frankfurt and we were going to take the Rhine road. It was a beautiful sunny day and there was very little traffic to deal with along the river.

We stopped off in St. Goarshausen to walk out to the statue of the Lorelei - the legendary siren who would sing songs and lure sailors on the Rhine to wreck their boats on the rocks...probably Germany's most famous tease.

We stopped in Lorch and had a relatively edible meal at a pretty restaurant/hotel with huge wisteria growing on the patio. A quick icecream for Laura the second time around the main drag (I couldn't make the hard right turn the first time...those who have been there know what I'm talking about) in Rudesheim and we were on the autobahn headed to Susan and Scott's.

We hit a traffic jam at the airport at approximately 3:30pm and we didn't get to Langen (9 km south of the airport) until just after 5:00pm.

We did want to go the the stroller supercenter known as Segmüller and Susan wanted to show us that store so we all loaded up and took off.

Segmüller is like Ikea and Sears and Best Buy wrapped into one and then jacked up on steroids. Saying it's a huge store is like saying Mother Teresa was just 'a good person'. And like Mother Teresa, they only take cash.

We didn't find anything to buy, but we did discover that we would have been grabbing our ankles (metaphorically) if we had bought a stroller there and shipped it home. We'll buy it from some unsuspecting yokel in Canada (no offense to anyone north of the border, eh).

Dinner was very quick as Lena was in no mood, and we were back at Susan's apartment by 9:15 or so.

Re-packing and readying everything for Friday was the only thing left on the agenda for the night.

^ Wisteria covered restaurant - Lorch, Germany ^