Baden Baden

Hello again!

So Saturday the 24th, the HHK took a trip to Baden Baden, which is a really gorgeous city in Germany that is known for it's natural hot water springs (the name literally means Bath Bath) We woke up and took a train from Horb, somewhere around 9:00am. 

Our guide was 18-year old Leonie, who attends a local high school. That seems fair right? Give a group of thirty-five foreigners who are all twenty-something to one girl who hasn't finished high school yet. She was pretty stressed, but we all tried to make it as easy as possible for her.

It took two-and-a-half hours to get to Baden Baden. Then we took a bus from the train-station to the downtown area, where we began our "tour".

We walked to a casino that some of us weren't old enough to go in... it was really pretty though!

Then we walked to a pretty famous Bier Halle, more accurately, a Halle, because it had nothing to do with Bier.

(A couple of Putti on the wall)

And finally to the bath-house

Then we were given a couple of hours to do as we pleased. Sight-seeing, shopping, or...

you can be like Adam, Kimmy and Brian, and buy a beer at like 11:30

I decided to do a combo of sight-seeing and shopping.  Everything was pretty expensive there, and we were told that for a very long time, only exceedingly wealthy people could live there. Which explains why we saw HUNDREDS of old women in fur coats. I have never seen so many different kinds of fur in one place! Some were just traditional, others were fancy with lots of little details. There were fur vests, fur hats, fur mittens. Basically the last place on earth anyone from PETA should ever go. 

Most everything was far too expensive for me to go shopping, so I ended up just taking lots of pictures of cool things and places.

(We could hear the water from the hot springs behind this door)

(Some cute little slippers, an owl, and a strawberry)

(There was this little girl who would come to the window and dance and wave, but as soon as we looked, she would run away. So I had to be ultra-stealthy to snag a photo. She's basically the definition of adorable)

(Like Horb, there were tons of hills, and so, lots of stairs)

(Kelsey with her new husband, the hunter)

(I'm not exactly sure what this means, something about not kicking circles if you're under a flying car, next to a house in a bubble. Must happen more than I thought it did)

(Brian having a deep, intellectual conversation with someone who might actually understand him)

We spent a few hours in Baden Baden and then headed back to the train-station, to ride for another 2.5 hour ride. 

All in all, a pretty good trip.