Throwback Thursday: Rhein River Cruise

Happy Throwback Thursday, everyone! I think we are nearing the end of the 'throwback' posts--I am almost caught up with all our big trips and adventures we've taken in the year before this blog got going. I am actually getting everything ready for a BIG upcoming adventure today, but I wanted to get this one loaded. It is our Rhein River Cruise we took during the summer. We sailed from the town of Rüdesheim, which is about 30 minutes away from Wiesbaden early one Friday morning. Of course it rained on us a bit, but we took that opportunity to have lunch on board the ship. We had the option to hop on/hop off and explore the towns, but for this trip we decided to just ride to the end of the line and back. (Especially given the finicky weather!) The kids enjoyed it because there were so.many.castles! Castles here are like 7-11's in the States--there's one on every corner! (okay, so that's an exaggeration, but only kind of) The girls played a game the entire ride of claiming castles. "That's my summer castle." "That one is my weekend castle." PJ enjoyed 'driving' the ship most of the time. So, all in all, this was a nice day trip for the family and we didn't have to do too much planning or packing.