Frohe Ostern!

On Easter Sunday we attended worship service at Dave and Rebekka's church.  We got really good at saying "frohe ostern" which is German for "Happy Easter."

Like any pastor, Dave and Rebekka were busy during Holy Week.  But once Easter Sunday was over, their schedules freed up.  To celebrate we all took a road trip to the very south of Germany to Lake Constance.  The Germans call it Bodensee, which literally means "bottom see" because you can see the bottom through the crystal clear water.




Bodensee isn't internationally know, but it's a place where Germans go to vacation.  I would compare it to Sleeping Bear Dunes in Northern Michigan (only substitute the sand dunes for medieval towns and castles).  Rebekka's mother works at managing vacation condos, so she hooked us up with a last minute deal for all of us to go down for two nights.

When you look south across the lake, you are looking at Switzerland to the SW and Austria to the SE.  You can also see the snow-caped Alps in the background.  The view was much more magnificent than what my Sony Cyber-Shot 10x zoom could capture.

We met Rebekka's parents and sister at their home, and the kids had an Easter egg hunt.

Rebekka's mom served us Kaffee and Kuchen at 4:00.  It consisted of rolls, danishes, and "bee-sting cake," which is a delicious honey cake as the name implies.

I thought this would be our supper for the day, so I ate a lot.










But I was wrong.  Because at around 6:00 they served us a full-on Aben Brot, which means "evening bread."  This is the typical German supper that consists of fresh bread, sliced meats and cheeses, lots of butter, fruits and veggies, and other sides such as olives, pickles, etc.





The next day we were able to work off some of the food from the night before by walking around Bodensee and the town of Meersburg where we toured a castle.