Heidelberg, Day 2.

Today we awoke to a cloudy, windy morning. We immediately got in the rental car to return it to the company, as we no longer had any need for it.

This small feat turned into a two hour adventure, as the map provided to us was substantially incorrect and our ability to navigate the bad directions in “New town, Heidelberg” with all the one-way streets, round-abouts and “do not turn” areas.

We finally made it just in time for the clouds to open with a torrential thunder/lightening storm including rain droplets the size of dimes. We called for a cab (and by we, I mean the nice man behind the counter @ the rental agency,) and rode back to our hotel where we promptly grabbed our jackets and set out for lunch; Kayaking was out of the question due to the weather.



We spent the afternoon wandering the streets of “Old Town,“ where Bryan discovered a soccer field made of Gummy Bears


And I remembered how much I love this place.


This evening, we celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary with a dinner downtown. Bryan began the evening with his most favorite beer, Kostritzer, and promptly gave me a history of the beer and where it is made. (Kosritz, Northern Germany, for those curious.) I had only a Diet Coke, as I was fighting a raging headache.

Bryan ordered more beer,
and after the Tylenol and caffeine kicked in, I was able to enjoy my meal and have a lovely glass of local wine.

After dinner, we walked some more and took some shots of the castle and bridge by night.

Tomorrow we will leave our hotel and go to the reunion in Moore Haus, where I lived in 1999-2000 as a Pepperdine student.