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So, in Würzburg, we finally visited the rest of the Residenz. It was pretty cool to see the rest of the palace. While we were there in the Residenz, there was some construction still occurring in the Residenz. The reason for this is that the Residenz is still being reconstructed from bomb damage in World War II. During the last few weeks of World War II, the city of Würzburg was heavily damaged due to a bombing by the Royal Air Force. While some claim that Würzburg was a military target, the consensus (at least here in Germany) is that the bombing of Würzburg was an act of revenge for the bombing of British cities five years earlier. After we visited the Residenz, we visited a war museum in Würzburg. There was a model of the city after the city had been bombed along with a list of all the people that were killed during the bombing.

We climbed the top of a hill where we visited a church on the way to our vans, but before we got into the vans, we stopped at a playground overlooking the city. We kicked out the local children so that our all-American crew could play on the equipment. They got a good laugh out of watching us throw frisbees at each other while travelling on the ziplines. We came back to the house. The only other eventful event that I can remember that happened that night was that Dayton, Jon and I got out the poker chips and played some Texas Hold-'em in the parlour.

The next day, we visited Heidelberg. Heidelberg is notable for being the birthplace of the Reformed branch of Protestantism. In addition, there is a wealth of history in Heidelberg. When we got to an Internet café in Heidelberg, I downloaded some information about the Thirty Years War to my memory key so that I could consume the knowledge later. The castle in Heidelberg was a nice place to visit. All all the places that I've visited so far in Germany, Heidelberg is probably the one that I've become most interested in. The Protestant elector of Heidelberg was invited to become the king of Bohemia which had a Catholic king with a Protestant populace. Somehow, the Catholic ruler of Bavaria started a war over the issue which I assume led to the Thirty Years War.

We had dinner in a nice Italian restaurant near the city square and then headed back to Margetshöchheim. However, along the way, we ran into an intense traffic jam on the Autobann. By the time that we finally got back to Margetshöchheim, everyone else just went to bed since they were so tired. I stayed up to get a small snack. I made the comment that Dr. Ostrander would probably come over to our house sometime later since all the snacks were in our house and none in theirs. About fifteen seconds later, Dr. Ostrander walked through the door. So, we had some toasted kaiser rolls with butter and jam. With nothing left to do, I went to bed.

Today, the goal was to head to Frankfurt. I slept in since the Art in Western Culture class was meeting. People had told me that I should visit the class sometime since Dayton is a good teacher. It turned out that a parade was going through town giving away free items. When they came across a group of Americans, they brought out some free gifts for the group while the band played “When The Saints Come Marching In”. Needless to say, I should have gone.

Lunch was leftover spaghetti which still tasted delicious. After that, we headed to Frankfurt to visit some museum.