Happy Anniversary to Us!

Hard to believe it´s already been one year. It seems like it was just yesterday that we tied the knot. It´s been kind of a busy year, but an awesome one. Too many memories from the year to go over, so we´ll just stick to the last two days!

We´re in Wurzburg today, and have had a lovely day. We visited the Prince Bishops Residence, which was fantastic. The first four main rooms that we saw were absolutely breathtaking. The fresco in over the stairwell is apparently the largest in the world, and depicts the Prince´s influence on the different continents. Each continent is represented by a woman on an animal - apparently the alligator was the most representative animal of the americas. Who knew. The next room was completly done by hand in the most intricate stucco work. The artist lost his mind after doing stucco 14 hours a day for 9 months. There was also an amazing room of mirrors that was completely destroyed (along with most of the residence) in a 20 minute air raid at the end of the war that also destroyed almost 90 percent of the city. The mirrors in this room were unique because they had been painted from behind, but they managed to restore and recreate the room to its original condition. The day before, we had seen the name plaques for the restoration of the city wall in Rothenburg. Probably 50% of the names were Japanese, an interesting phenomenon.

We were also lucky because the sun was out today, and it was actually warm for a while, so we enjoyed the roses in the garden of the Residence. We also trekked to the top of the hill to the castle (which was also the Prince´s old residence) where there was a Medieval Times-type show going on for the kiddies. The rain started again before we could start cheering for the "correct" knight. The rain is still coming down now as we make our way back to the hotel before dinner.

Thanks everyone for your anniversary wishes. We are having a great time - it just happens to be periodically interrupted by vertical moisture.