Saturday was another beautiful, warm summer day. We had our own small charter bus to drive us around.

first was Linderhof, King Ludwig II's "hunting lodge" - not a castle, but close enough for Americans. The tour was long enough, but not too long. They got to see enough Roccoco-Baroque to finally understand what it meant = gold-silber & glitz & extravaganze. Then we hiked up to the man-made grotto and toured there (in English) seeing where Ludwig had the first electric generator in Europe installed to run the lights and waterfall for his own private performances of Wagner's opera TANNHAEUSER. Then they had 1-1-2 hours to just wander the 100 acre grounds and see the other buildings. I got some good pix of them 'frolicing'in the meadows.

Next was Oberammergau - very small town but won hands down the contest for best ice cream so far! The flavors were exquiste and so was the size of the cones. That only took about 1 hour to see (did I mention small town?)

Then we went to Ettal to see the Cloister, best example of Southern German Baroque. Unfortunately, there was a wedding going on in the church, but they got to go in quietly in small groups and stand in the back (with the other tourists) and see part of it. The church souvenir shop was nice, too.

After dinner we went into town to the Kur Park and listened to the Oompah Band in Lederhosen and danced and danced. (You'll see the pix later)On the way back we met a GAPP group from Texas and compared stories.

back in the YH some went to bed and others watched the soccer game.

that was day 2.