Christine had prepared a room for us with two cute beds wich were neatly made. I almost felt guilty for messing it up. But I don't get that much sleep at the moment, so I really needed some.
When we got up, we went to the playground with Ronja and in the evening we made plans on how we'd spend our family weekend and had a good meal.
Saturday morning when I got up (at almost half past nine!! :D) I found a note on the breakfast table, saying that Grandma and Ronja are on their way to the baker and coffee is in the kitchen - what a perfect start to a beautiful day!
Sebastian even overslept breakfast - but nice as we are we left some rests for him to eat ;P
At about noon we got packed and started driving to towards - Chiemsee!
I've been there before when I was about nine or ten - but we only sailed once arround the Chiemsee and left the ship without visiting one of the islands.
This time we got on the ship (the shipping took no longer than 10 minutes) and got off to visit the "Fraueninsel" (Womenisland). Christine knows this island very well, since she went into the monastery on there for a week of silence.
waiting for the ship
no, she is not seasick at all, she's trying to see the waves
me and my little princess
dadys turn to keep baby from jumping into the water
It was overwhelming!
It's got tons of beautiful houses with the brightest and most gorgeous flowers I've ever seen, lots of green arreas with very, very old trees, one bay behind the next with those cute lil boats, artists selling theyr beautiful crafts, an amazing mountain view and last but not least the most breathtaking old little church that I've ever seen! (I'll tell you the very special story about it later in this post)
We took a walk across the whole island at first. Meanwhile Ronja fell asleep (she had a blast shipping over to the island and so much excitement costs a lot of power...) so we could enjoy the amazing sight and take a lot of beautiful pictures. My favorite place was a very old tree, that looked like it had been bend by the weight of its top and kind of grew into the sea now...it was such a quite, peaceful place and the beauty of nature caught me with full impact the moment I saw this. It made me speachless for a minute. To bad Ronja was asleep and missed that moment - but I am sure we will go there again, so she'll still get the chance to see it.
see the old couple sitting under the tree? They were sitting there wispering in theyr ears like teenagers - so cute!
16th week pregnant...see it? I don't...
I kind of wonder where this tree might have it's roots...in the sea?
my (still) sleeping beauty
what a wonderful place! just imagine the sun going down while sitting there...
Totally relaxed but a bit hungry we decided to look for a nice place to have some cake or in Sebastians case a Wiener Schnitzel. We chose a restaurant a little off the main roads, that wasn't to full of tourists. Just the moment we got there our princess woke up as if to say "Hey, I am hungry, too. Don't you forget me!"
So we sat on the porch and had cheesecake, Ronja had some potato salad and Sebi enjoyed his Schnitzel. It was very good - expensive though...
happy and no longer hungry xD
this was the wash-bowl in the bathroom of the restaurant - it was made of glas and had a light beneeth! So beautiful! Wish my bathroom would look that romantic...
Our next goal was this amazing church I mentioned. Long story short, it is dedicated to a woman called Irmengard. Many, many women with unfulfilled desire for children or other "women-problems" go there to pray and receive the blessing from Irmengard - so many, that the stairhead at the entrance wich is made of stone (!) has a hollow in it!
I was so overwhelmed when I saw the altar and all the bright and colorful pictures and decorations in that curch! Not at all like the old, muggy, cold and dark churches I am use to (all catholic churches I've seen, made me feel pretty uncomfortable - except the Dom in Regensburg).
Blame it on the pregnancy or the fact, that I held my wonderful baby daughter in my arms, but I was so emotional, when I saw those walls full of thanksgiving letters and photos from women all over the world telling about theyr beautiful newborns or theyr new strenght and the cohension of theyr familys...and all kinds of tiny wonders that happend since theyr visit at this curch.
I have to admit, I got weak knees and in silence I did ask Irmengard for a blessing to make sure, Ronja Elina stays healthy and eager for knowlege and fantastic as she is and for snowflake to be healthy and that he/she gets all he/she needs during the pragnancy, allthough I have trouble eating and I don't get as much time for resting and trying to get in contact with snowflake as I should...and we lighted up a candle for our little family.
one of the beautiful houses along our way
proud dady
the entrance to the church - see the stair-head hollow?!
you weren't alloud to take pictures in the curch, but I found this one on the internet
Irmengard
us 3 and a half (and yes after eating I see the 16th week pregnancy ;P)
After this emotionally experience, we took an almost silent walk across the graveyard to the curch and then decided to take the next ship back to onshore, where we had some icecream and then started home.
those flowers smelled sooo good
grandma Christine & Ronja Elina
"our" ship
she stole my icecream - and did NOT share with me!
finally walking a few steps...she refused to walk only one tiny bit on the island!
dady and baby totally wasted
On the way back, Ronja fell asleep (we weren't that lucky on the way to the Chiemsee - she was a little fretful)
We arrived early evening so the sun was still shining and we got to spend some time in the backyard before dinner. It was such a wonderful, exciting, sunny, emotional...day. I almost didn't want to let it end, but beeing outside the whole day and walking arround made me pretty tired, so we watched some TV and finally went to bed.
This sure was one of the highlights of our family trips!
hihi...the dugs didn't mind us beeing there at all!
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