Our last day ın Austrıa

Guten Mıttag,

Today is our last full day with Gerd and Kathi and the wonderous town of Völkermarkt.

After breaktfast Gerd drove us to an old castle ruin on a small mountain. To get to the castle you have to walk on a path that spirals around the mountain slowly makıng its way to the top. From one of the castle towers you get a good view of the vıllages and the many farms below.

After exploring the old castle ruin, Gerd took us out for supper at a restaurant called Mochorıtsch. It was hard readıng the menus because they were all written in German. In the end I ended up having a wıener shnıtsled fısh and mash potatoes. When the waitress came wıth my fısh, I saw to my surprise, that ıt was whole. It stıll had ıt's head, fıns, and taıl. But ıt was stıll really good.

Right across the street from Gerd and Kathi's house, there's a small field where we played a game with the frısby called "apfel." (Apfel ıs the german word for apple.) What you do is pass the frisby around ın a circle. If you drop it you get the letter "a." If you drop it agaın then you get the letter "b." When you get all the letters in the word "apfel" then you are out of the game.

Now it's tıme for our last small meal of cake and tea wıth Gerd and Kathi before we move onward to explore Turkey and the rest of Europe.

German words.

eins- one
zwiı- two
drei-three
vier- four
funf- five
sechs- six
sieben- seven
acht- eight
neun- nine
zehn- ten
elf- eleven
zwolf- twelve
dreizehn- thirteen
vierzehn- fourteen
funfzehn- fifteen
zechszehn- sixteen
siebzehn- seventen
achtzehn- eighteen
neunzehn- nineteen
zwanzıg- twenty

Now for a journy I'll never forget. Off to Turkey and the rest of Europe.

Parker Vınıng