Early B-day

the view from our window in the morning

the same view at night

we could have watched the barges all day long!

The Bistro

Tarte flambee....with rucola and ham. So good!

The Kloster

Konigswinter ferry

Top floor apartment....Tom lived there when he was 10 and 11 years old! Still looks the same. (the apartment that is!)

The Presbyterian Church

Stake Conference got in the way this year: so Tom and I decided to celebrate my birthday a couple of days early.

We drove to Bonn Germany...well, really Plittersdorf. We got a room at the Petersburg for the night. It's a luxury hotel that is perched on the hillside across the Rhine from Plittersdorf. We had an amazing view of the Rhine. Loved the food and the views. We swam in the pool and went into the sauna and enjoyed the sunset.

The next day we took a hike among the thousands of trails in the forest and came upon a cool Kloster (church). As it was a religious holiday, there was lots of preparations going on for a big production of some kind.

Then we took the ferry over the Rhine and walked through the old neighborhood where Tom spent his 5th, 6th, and 7th grade. Lots has changed of course, but the apartment is still the same! And we thought of his mom, Edna, when we saw that the Presbyterian Church is still functioning...she spent many, many hours there.

And just to make the trip a total success...we stopped at the base on the way home and I spent over $1,000 in groceries that we had to buy and load, and unload and put away. Ugh!