Family Sunday

Sunday in Germany is a day reserved to spend time with your family. You see entire families out on walks and bike rides, and extended families are often seen spending a leisurely dinner together for hours at a time. Different events can usually be found to attend as a family, including; festivals, markets and a corn maze. Which is exactly where we went last Sunday! It was a relatively small, a diamond with intersecting lines. But for 12 euro we spent a couple hours there, exploring the maze, playing hide and seek, climbing on the big rocks. They had a little store with pumpkins, artichokes, squash, and homemade items with kaffee und kuchen (coffee and cake). It even has a pick your own flowers area, you just pay by the stalk and put the money in a box. Evidently it is a working farm that opens up a corn maze during September. I found this out when I asked where the toiletten was and was directed into thier home! We got to say hello to their 2 cows, they ran away from us but I bet our English scared them away :)! Getting there was extremely hard, we didn't have an address to type into the GPS, only the 2 towns the farm was between. So we had the GPS guide us to the 1st town, then put the 2nd town into the GPS and started driving. (Our GPS is old and doesn't like to see the car plug, wants to shut off alot, and can't always locate our position right away. So some of our trouble was specific to us!) Sure enough, along this country road we saw a sign, turned right and up a little hill there was a parking area, thank goodness for small favors! When we got in the car to go home, since we felt we had come "the backroads" to get there we decided to use the GPS again. After putting in Home, and selecting the shortest distance vs. the shortest time, we were directed to yet another "backroad" and eventually came out in Landstuhl. They have many autobanns over here, but somehow we always get directed off of it and onto some dinky 1 1/2 lane road (as in 2 cars can BARELY pass each other safely on them) and it takes us around 30 minutes to get somewhere! Eventually I will know quicker better ways just off the top of my head, but until then we will be found on little country roads out on our "sunday drive"!