Taking our Leave

We spent our last morning in Glucksburg visiting everyone one last time and walking around the town. First we walked across the street to visit Dr. Rust's mom. It's really nice how she is able to live right across from Thomas and co. like that.

Oma Rust with one of her babies.
Can you believe she's 93?!

Next we walked over to take a look at the church where Thomas is pastor. Erik did some neat trick photography here. He was really confused when he was taking the photo, because Thomas had been complaining to us about how modern and ugly his church is. Erik was thinking, "This church isn't ugly at all!" But it wasn't the church; it was the old train station with the church steeple sticking up behind.

The ex-train station (or some such) and church steeple.

The actual church.

Then we walked around the Glucksburg peninsula and the lake/pond around the castle where we had eaten dinner the night before. We cut our walk a little short because rain was threatening, but it was fun.

Glucksburg Castle.

Happy Ducks

From late morning on, we spent some time with Dr. Rust's older brother, Thies, and his wife, Heinke. We went over to their house to have tea and cakes and then talked with them for a few hours before coming home to pack. Unfortunately, we forgot the camera, so you'll just have to imagine it.

After a candle-lit dinner (Think more pagan bonfire than romantic. Erik says it was cozy, not pagan. It was fun, either way.) with the Thomas Rust clan, we headed up to pack and get ready for an early train ride.

Jakob with his "Autoooooo"