Storming the castle?

No, these are not pictures from the Black Forest version of "Lord of the Flies" "Ewok Adventure". It's GRILL time for the Ki-Ku gruppe!

This past week was the summer camp (Summerlager) for the Kinder Kulture group here in Rümmingen. There were different activities each day: crafts, cooking (via an ingredient scavenger hunt through the village, some kids go door-to-door to "find" eggs, some get flour, some gather fruit, etc.), a "Zirkus" day (with a very good juggler who taught the kids some tricks), fun water-games, and finally the preparation for the grillen (authentic German word for cook-out)! Our group was off to the Schwartzwald to gather wood for the fire and sticks for grilling wurst and cooking dough (Stockbrot - literally "stick-bread"). The adults went off the trail to cut small (usually) saplings to make the grilling-sticks and the kids used their pocket knives to trim the sticks to sharp points. Amazingly, no eyes were put out and no-one got skewered on the hike back down the hill.

Meantimes, while Madge and Wils were being Ki-Ku campers, the girls were down in the Southern Alps of Switzerland, practicing their Schweitze-Deutsch ... and land hockey! We'll let them tell the story themselves on this, or their own blogs, but we drove down some equipment last week when the camp started. The pics below do not do the true experience justice, but they give a taste ...

oooo...purty	wait, is that the guard-rail?
wer hat richtungsweg?*	and just where does that go?
ah, that way ... huh?	oh, so that is a guard-rail ...
and here we are ...

*in Germany, or Switzerland, the bus ALWAYS has the right-of-way. The van backed up (under excellent direction from a local) and the bus slid by (literally, centimeters to spare) and we proceeded ...