Autumn Day in Luxembourg

Last Saturday was a perfect autumn day here in Luxembourg. The day started with my marvelous husband taking Anna out for a walk through the field behind our house, so I could get some more sleep, yeah! After breakfast, we bundled up a bit and set off for France, to tour Chateau de Priesch. It took us approximately 20 minutes to get there (we told you the country of Lux was small). It was a nicely up kept more modern chateau with a moat that actually still had water in it all the way around the buildings. Sadly, there were no turrets to be found, and really it looks so much less 'castle-y' if there are no turrets... more like a big house on the rich side of town. So after a nice walk on the grounds of the castle, we came home for lunch and a nap for the girls.

Upon waking, we made our way to a fantastic apple orchard about 25 minutes from our house. They had a wheelbarrow for Anna to ride around on; which I'm sure are really meant for the more determined apple pickers who take away boxes & boxes of apples, but anyway, Anna loved the ride through the trees. We ate an apple right off of the tree and had Anna help pick. All in all, I think we ended up with about 20 very yummy crisp apples in our 'petit boite'. They also had a section of blackberries, and while we didn't take any home; wandering through the rows and having a sample or 5 made me think of my childhood in Northern California and the fall berry picking walks that my family would take. Hmmm, yummy fruit + nostalgia = fantastic experience. This afternoon was especially good for James, who had never been apple picking before, and enjoyed himself thoroughly. After exhausting ourselves in the orchard (ha, ha, with our pitiful loot of 20 apples), we settled into some apple fritters and fresh pressed apple juice. We enjoyed these with some other Americans we bumped into in the orchard. Another point that makes this day rank very highly in my book is that one of them called me 'petite' for being due to have a baby in 2 weeks. I laughed out loud--- I've never been called petite in my life!

After such a tiring afternoon, I decided to forgo cooking dinner and we got some take-away Thai food from a restaurant by the train station. The food was adequate and it was half as expensive as other restaurants we've tried, but still twice as expensive as LA Thai food--- we miss you Natalee Thai and Kabuki Sushi & Akbar too!