More from Sunday

I wanted to continue posting about our Sunday because we saw so many interesting things out there in Bergisch Gladbach. We parked by this nice fachwerk house.

You are now standing under the ocean - millions of years ago, that is. These rocks are not rocks, they are a coral reef. I said "So ein QUATSCH!" (baloney) but the cache description was correct, it was a coral reef, and I even found a coral reef CAVE that I went in! I yelled to my man, "Wanna join me in my cave under the sea?" But he had his own cave, even bigger.


These are not rocks.


The markings on the trees and signposts had a crustacean to indicate the "Ancient times in Bergischem Land."

(That's where we live - Bergisches Land. It's an area name like the Ozarks are in "Missouruh".) In fact, whenever I look at pics of the Ozarks, I think "Hey, that looks like our part of Germany!" Except the Ozarks hills are higher.)

Then there were these thick vines shooting up thru the tree canopy. I grabbed them and pulled on them and they swayed all over the place. They were somehow free-standing, not attached to anything until they reached the treetops and connected. I couldn't believe it - I've never seen such vines. I guess Tarzan lives here.


This is the top portion of my man's cave. Sorry I couldn't get the whole thing in the picture, if I backed up, I'd fall off a cliff into a ravine. For fun, while my man risked his life searching for a geocache, I rolled large rocks down the ravine and listened to how long they clattered until they stopped.

Then we found cows. I haven't been so close to cows in a long time and I was fascinated. We tried to identify continents in their black and white markings.

Many of them were very full of milk, and I said, "Give me a cup, I'll go get you some milk!" but we had no cup.


And I found the cows to be skittish - as I tried to approach, they'd stand up and move away. Maybe they don't like being milked by strangers.


Why do they need a tag in each ear - isn't one eartag enough to identify an animal?



Then came that sound you hear this time of year, and I taped it. Do you know what animal makes this sound? It shocked me when I first heard it, cuz I had no idea what kind of animal it was, but it was clearly an animal of some sort! I remember standing there in the woods with that TB mare, my heart pounding, and she was totally cool about it, so I calmed down.