Castle Zeil

I hope you don't mind traveling with us on some of our outings. Yesterday, we had a little mixture of business and pleasure. It was Preparation Day, so we can do a few of those things with the elders (sight seeing, etc.), but the elders still had some missionary work in the process.

First, we went up to Bad Waldsee, about 20 miles north of us. "Bad" means Bath, or health resort. When cities meet certain criteria, they qualify to have the word "Bad" added to their name. It usually involves some therapy resort where people can come for rehabilitation or health purposes, often a hot springs or something natural.

Anyway, in Bad Waldsee, we visited a man who was visited by the missionaries a year or so ago. He wondered why they stopped coming to see him. We had a nice visit with him. After that, we visited one of our elderly sisters who is in a care center here. We sang to her and gave her the sacrament. After that, we visited a man in city further out who has lost contact with the church and we have newly established contact with him. He had a stroke recently and is doing better.

After our visits, we went a little farther to the Schloss Zeil, a castle on a hill overlooking the valley where the freeway runs. We look a lot of pictures, but I will only show a few. It was getting dark, so some were not as good as they could have been, but it was an interesting place. This is not a popular castle and did not have any kind of tours or facilities. We just walked around and took pictures. People still live in it and most of it is not open for the public.

 These two are just of the land area we went through on our way to the castle. This actually was in the area of Bad Wurzach where we met with the man last mentioned.

Also near there we saw a lot of stacks of wood, preparations for the winter.

Welcome to the castle.

Posing next to the guard (painted on the wall - not me, the guard)

a nice fountain in the middle (without water)

painted on the ceiling in a passageway. Sister B thought it looked like Kermit the Frog.

Near the overlook out into the valley below.

 And a couple pictures of the valley view. See the freeway in the distance

There was a herd of deer right by the castle. Look at those antlers.

Here is a church which is part of the castle. Most all castles also have churches.

This was painted on the ceiling. The room was very dark, but my flash on the camera helped.

OK. This last one has nothing to do with the castle. We took that picture earlier. It shows the main highway between Bodnegg and Tettnang, two small cities in the area. As you can see, the road goes right through a barn. At this point, the speed limit is 100 kph (about 60 mph). I hope no one tries to go that fast through the barn.