The Black Forest

As the weather starts to warm up we are going to get out on the weekends and make this most of living in Europe on the military's dime! Leevi has a four day weekend every month that we will try to plan something. And sporadically we can do quick day trips like this one to the Black Forest. It was exactly 2 hrs away which was a perfect distance before the girls got antsy (or before I have to use the bathroom!) Yay for Leapsters and Portable DVD players! Although we did play good ole Eye Spy for quite some time and Kai napped! :)

Our first stop was at one of the world's biggest cuckoo clocks! I wish I had taken a picture of all of the cuckoo clocks inside the shop...it reminded me of Pinocchio!

This clock was on the other side of the building and you could pay a Euro and have it sing and dance anytime! The girls loved it and I think we did it three times! :) The video...

Inside...I L-O-V-E her pout face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That lip just gets me! :) When we were getting back in the car to head to the waterfalls Leevi saw this drain pipe and told the girls that here were the big falls!!! Hailey got a kick out of it! :)

Just around the corner in Triberg im Schwarzwald (Tree-berg) are the waters of the Gutach. There were awesome hiking trails that zig zagged back and forth across the mile long falls!!!!! And of course there was a typical wooden German playground...And these massive granite stonesAfter our hike we had a late lunch at a German cafe complete with Black Forest Cake!

It started to sprinkle around 3:30 so we called it a day and headed back home. We will definitely go again as I'm sure there were things we missed!