I guess I’ve left you all hanging long enough, and have found a few minutes to get on with this story; we last left off with two victims taking a Ride on the Ralphing Railrod. Other than wiping the bathroom’s entire supply of nifty plastic bags out, being embarrassed somewhat, and running to the train’s toilet to dispose of “things”, we had a really, really nice 2 and a half hour trip. The scenery was spectacular with vineyards, small villages with sweet little churches and steeples, and tidy gardens along the tracks. The potential problem with our tickets was NOT an issue whatsoever, which was a GREAT relief to me. If you’ll recall, in a gigantic doofus-moment, I made the ticket reservation in my maiden name which does NOT match the name on the credit card I used. Phew!

Arriving at the Nuremberg station, we had to make some hasty decisions- which really were no-brainers. Mickey and Macaroni were just FAR too ill to make the short 1 mile walk to our hotel, which was our original plan. We thought we might be able to take in some of the sights along the way, and get a feel for the area, but this was clearly not to be. With no other choice, we negotiated a taxi up to our hotel- the Hotel Elch- which really means “moose” in German. A moose like this one on the wall:




It was far cheaper than I thought it would be, and Mickey and Macaroni were kind enough to only leave one “souvenir” for our driver. Don’t worry, we had extra bags, and we took them with us, but I can’t imagine that he didn’t wonder what the heck was going on in his back seat. I did manage to get 3 photos of our first impressions of Nuremberg, none of which came out very good, but hey, there would be 2days to get some better ones:







The driver found it with no problems, and happily took our money- including the tip that we sure would have loved to hand back to him. Ah well, I guess that is how it is done… It was time to check in. It was very obvious right away that this was a family run, very low-key, casual sort of place, and we loved it right away, even though we had to wait a bit to be helped. One room was ready; the other was not, but at this point, we were just grateful to get a private toilet, trashcans, and any other receptacles to handle our misfortune. The kids especially appreciated the copious amounts of Kleenex, TP, and wet washcloths, as you can imagine. They fairly passed out on the white, fluffy beds, luxuriously beds draped with down duvets, and were asleep within seconds- literally. Their sound sleep was only interrupted to “take care of business”, and by now even that was becoming less frequent. HOORAY!

Wanna see our room?? Yeah, I thought so, check this out!








Beauteous, eh??

Having stashed the pukers, and one tired little (healthy) girl, it was time to take our first walk. I made The Water Guy promise that we wouldn’t be gone more than an hour, and with that we took off to see what we could see. Come along with me on a short walk from Hotel Elch up towards our first destination:













And here we arrive at our first major attraction:



Which we’ll pick up with next time…

Until then, have a magical day!!!