Visit from our daughter and grandsons

We are having a wonderful time with our daughter and two of our grandsons, who are visiting from Hungary. We love seeing our grandson, born in Hungary last December, for the first time. It is wonderful!

She posted several blog segments about their visit and included many photos.  (See thesingingbees.blogspot.com) I will post a few here and give some comments about our experiences.

They communicated with their family via Skype.

We had some nice sunny days and some very rainy days. Everything worked out well and we were able to visit some wonderful places. One day we travelled to Austria and Liechtensten. We spenta day in Ravensburg city and saw some beautiful sights in the country and visited an amazing castle in Meersburg. On the day we took them to the train station, we visited the King's castles in Swangau (Neuenschwanstein and Hohenschwangau). One of the beautiful experiences was our Sunday meeting when we had a number of visitors, including some new investigators. They had a very inspiring Gospel Essentials class (taught in English).

Here are a few pictures of our visit to the Ravensburg Humpis museum and to the Meersburg castle. Our daughter's blog has many more for you to see.

The Humpis Museum was in a set of buildings that were originally built and used by the Humpis family, some artifacts and structures dating back to 1400s.

There are many towers and city gates in Ravensburg. You can pay to climb the towers, but they are not open in the winter times. We went up into the Blaserturm (trumpet tower) where we could see the city and the whole area.

Sister Buchanan did not come up. It was too much of a drop and edge for her.

The Meersburg castle is am amazing and authentic fortress that has existed for centuries and has been continuously occupied - Germany's oldest inhabited castle. The oldest record they have is from the Merovingian king Dagobert the first who was in the castle in 640 AD.

Here are a few pictures and a video of the armor and weapons room.

There was a prison AND a dungeon AND a torture chamber. I guess they were serious about this. I only got pictures of the dungeon. It was a hole in the floor where they lowered (dropped) the prisoners. There was a small little stairway that could be used to get up and down.

Here is a video of the armory room.

This will be continued in the next blog entry.