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This morning our hostess had to serve us breakfast early because the family was attending a wedding that day, and they needed time to get ready. She explained the tradition of a Bavarian wedding... her husband and all of the other male family members would arrive at the happy couple's house at 4 am and start the festivities of the day by shooting off giant guns. The bride-to-be would then get up, serve her groom breakfast, and then everyone would don their traditional Bavarian clothing for the wedding. The festivities would last until about midnight, making for a very long day.
Angie asked her if we could get the family to pose for a picture before they left, so around 9 am, they all assembled for us outside. They were so adorable... our hostess with her plaid, puffy-sleeved dress, her husband and the boys with their green felt hats.
We started out for the day trying to find the supermarket that we had seen the day before. As we drove around town and got lost, we passed by a group of people assembling on the steps in front of a building... all dressed the same way as our host
family was that morning. We realized that we had accidentally found the wedding that they were attending! My sister wanted to park and get some pictures (I was hesitant to do so because I figured they would think we were crazy tourists), but we parked and started walking toward the building. Then a woman stopped us, and told my sister in German that if we stayed where we were, the whole congregation would be marching down the street in a few minutes, on their way up to the church.
Sure enough, in a couple minutes, the band started up, and the group paraded by... the women in their dresses of every color of the rainbow... the little girls carrying their woven straw handbags. In the video, you will hear my sister say "Hallo!"... George, our hostess' husband had spotted us and waved... probably wondering how the heck we managed to find them.
After finally finding the supermarket, we made it to our real destination of the day... a lake called Königsee, said to be the cleanest lake in Gemany. (Apparently no gas powered boats allowed, only electric, rowing and pedal boats.) Soon we found ourselves gliding across the
sparkling green-blue water towards the mountains. We disembarked on the other side and took a walking path to another lake called Obersee.
After our journey back across the lake, we boarded the Jennerbahn cable car which took us all the way to the top of Jenner Mountain. There was a lot of snow up there, so walking around was quite limited. I wasn't really interested in seeing how far I could slide down the side of the mountain, so we took a quick peek outside and then headed back in.
Back in town, we stopped at an Italian restaurant for dinner. Somehow we got on the subject of whose music was playing in the restaurant, and the waitress told us it was a man named Eros Ramazotti. We said we had never heard of him. Later she came back and told us that the owner was completely shocked that we didn't know who he was, and was apparently upstairs searching for the CD cover so he could show us what he looked like (like seeing him would all of a sudden make us know who he was?) I guess he couldn't find it, so we had her write
the name down and we promised we would look him up when we got home. For a guy who was named after the Greek god of lust (seems fitting for an Italian), he's actually not half bad!
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