September 4th - 7th, Alsace region of France

So we are four months behind on blogging....life is busy here! For the long Labor Day weekend, we drove to Colmar, France and stayed in a great apartment. Billy went with his baseball team to Italy, so he wasn't with us this time. We just love Alsace, and every single village we visited. We can not imagine a more picturesque place and September was just perfect for a visit there.

This was the building our apartment was in, the one with the green shutters. The apartment was at the top. The location was amazing, just steps to the center of town.

What do you do in Alsace???? Visit the wine caves of course!

Peek-a-boo!

This was the town of Eguisheim, a favorite of ours! We bought lots of wine here!

Fountains were everywhere.







We just loved this village.

Some days, I just wish I was French.

Day two, we drove to Belfort, France for a flea market and to see the town. The market was very big and had lots of great things. We had no idea that a citadel this size encircled the city center. While I shopped, Bill took the kids climbing.



We did not buy these at the flea market, even though Bill wanted to.

French bread, still hot from the oven......mmmmmmmmmm.

Day three began with a trip up to the top of a mountain to see Haut Koenigsbourg Castle, quite a beautiful castle.









A true highlight of the trip for the kids, Montagne des Singes (monkey mountain). Where you get to feed popcorn to monkeys. Nolan was delighted to say the least. Katie was not really willing to feed them, but she liked being there.

Just priceless.

"So, what's up??".



Day four began with a trip to Ribeauville. A beautiful village.



The kids loved this statue of a piper.



A visit to Jean, the tablecloth guy. And I did not leave empty handed.

So, we were driving home on some back roads with Tomtom navigating and randomly come across an American tank. We stop of course and find out that this spot is a bunker in the Maginot Line, right along the Rhine. The bunker has been converted to be a small WWII museum. Very neat!



The was a piece of bridging equipment from WWII.