We started out the morning by walking across the bridge into downtown Dresden and jumping onboard a little cruise boat which took us up the Elbe River quite a ways to a little town which boasted a hillside winery.
We got off the boat and walked through the little town to the winery on the hillside (which we had seen from the boat). The winery had an excellent gift shop (with rest rooms!) which we returned to after taking the tour of the grounds; the winery featured a lovely (and fancy) house, complete with a video sales pitch in the formal dining area, a chapel of sorts at the top of the hill, and a lovely walk through the rows and rows of late-season plants.
After we were all done, we walked across the street to catch the bus to Radebuel, a suburb of Dresden, which has the world-famous Karl May Museum (and you really should check out the link, because this was an amazing hole-in-the-wall museum of American Western culture as dramatized by a German author who wrote best-selling books about it back in the late 1800s, the Zane Grey of his day). I'd never heard of him, but boy! is he famous in Germany!
After that thoroughly exciting experience, we got back on the bus and went a little further down the street to catch the train back to town. While on the new train, we saw this old train sitting on a sideline, a kind of little locomotive park, which Dad would've just loved to stop and check out. Unfortunately, we didn't. But it would sure be fun to go back and see it up close!
By the time we got back to the apartment, we were all worn out and ready for a night of relaxation, so we had a simple pasta dinner and sat around the table playing card games (e.g. rummy) and, except for James and I, who stayed up too late yapping, went to bed at a reasonable hour.
