Hey this is Kyle live from the airport. We are officially coming back to America now and will board the airplane in about 45 minutes. Yesterday we went to a little town called Rothenburg. The town is famous for it's cuckoo clock. It is not a normal cuckoo clock though. Instead of a bird or figure that comes out and says "Cuckoo, Cuckoo" there is a huge wooden guy that dinks beer. Now there is a story behind it though. The town was captured by invaders during the Thirty Years War in the sixteenth century. But the ruler that captured them was embarrassed that he could not drink beer so he made a deal. He said that if anyone could drink 6 pints of beer then he would free the town. Sure enough the Burgermeister (mayor) did it and so the town made a cuckoo clock in his honor. (in the picture below the guy drinking beer is on the right)
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.The coolest thing also happened to us yesterday! We ran into my mom's good friend from Calvert County, Laura Miller, while eating lunch in Rothensburg. We still cant belive it because the odds just dont match. Well wish us luck on our flight!
Auf Weidersen!
-Kyle
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