Europe 2015 – July 7th

Tuesday the 7th started out with a quiet breakfast and some laundry at Jokke and Merja’s. The boys took a moment to show us one of their favorite Minecraft videos. They could watch these videos for hours.

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Jokke, Bruce and I took a walk into town to check out Jokke’s favorite secondhand store and visit a drugstore so I could buy a contact lens case, which I’d forgotten to pack.

After the second load of laundry was hung out to dry, we jumped in the car and headed to a lake called Heyeglassee. No surprise, Finn was the first one in the cold water.

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Ezra and Bruce were more skeptical.

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Eventually Ezra was all the way in, too.

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And so were Bruce and Jokke.

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After everyone was dried off, we headed to Kloster Luccum, a former monastery dating back centuries.

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We stopped for a coffee and snack at their very modern looking cafe.

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And then went on a walk around the grounds. It was wonderful … except for the biting horse flies!

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On our way back out to the car we noticed a not-so-little free library. Tons of books! We saw two more in other areas of Germany that looked exactly the same.

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On the way home the skies opened up and it poured. So much for leaving the laundry out to dry while we were gone — good thing they have a dryer!

Here are all of my photos from this day.