Shopping in a Foreign Land

Doing our part to support the local economy we spent the entire day shopping at a “Real Markt” which also had a consumer electronics store and hardware store in the plaza. A little bit of a trying day as our poor kids are not only tired, but are extremely bored with all the shopping. We mostly accomplished our mission of further outfitting the RV with plates, glasses, a skillet, a pot, food and finally, a cell phone that works.

Dan is happy – 20 bottles of beer for about 5 Euro! =)

Got back to the RV park around 17:00 and made our way down to the water. The kids had a blast jumping and splashing around. We were a bit of an oddity at the beach as we are the only English speaking guests. We also made the mistake of visiting the beach to see what it was like – both kids got drenched in attempting to wade with their pants rolled up. Sophia got the worst of it – she did a face plant in the water and was completely drenched. We wandered back to the RV and changed into more appropriate swimming gear. As Dan pointed out, German men sure like their speedos!

Camping neighbors from Norway arrived that night. The gentleman had spent his career as a ships captain for a cruise ship that operated from Seattle to Alaska. He spoke very good English and probably knows Seattle better than we do! It was a very informative evening – He and his wife, Siri (don’t know that I have the spelling correct) invited us over to sit with them. They talked quite a bit about their old Winnebago and their travels around Europe and America. They were extremely helpful with route planning and in all, it was a very enjoyable evening.