THE BURG BERG

This week we followed up on to-do items from the Brussels Seminar, prepared for our next assignment and made final plans for Nat and Rich Busath’s visit next week.  Midweek we also enjoyed the European holiday of May Day.  This originally was a holiday to celebrate spring and tall poles with ribbons on them.  Since then it has degenerated into a labor protest day across Europe.  Seems the first revelers decided they needed time off with pay to dance around the pole and made some political statements at the party, causing management-labor problems ever since that have overshadowed the original idea. Since our office was closed, we took the “holiday” opportunity to visit Weinsberg, a town known in folklore for its creative response when the town was laid siege to in the middle ages. The wives and children of the town defenders were holed up in the town’s hilltop fortress. (They call it the “Burgberg”  which means mountain fortress) In a moment of compassion the sieging barbarians told the women they could depart with whatever they could carry.  These hearty German women were no fools and hoisted their husbands on their backs for the trek down the hill and thus saved their lives.  This statue commemorates the event and Elaine was up to prove she was an inheritor of that mighty German gene pool of brawn and brains!

We treated ourselves to a tiny table and 2 folding chairs, so now we can eat on our  balcony!

Fab 5 sing "Come thou Fount" for the Spring Concert in Frankfurt

We stopped at the park on the way home.  Elaine gets the Good Sport award for a scary ride down the hill and into the water