Today was departure day. But before that … time to go to the bakery with Greg and pick up some yummy breakfast treats. We also walked around Riquewihr, because I had yet to see it in the daylight.

Today is also Jan’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Jan!

After we ate and packed up we drove back to the village (Ribeavillé) where we bought wine yesterday, because Greg was picking up a few more bottles of wine. Of course we had to sample the wine he was buying, too.

Then we drove to another village: Orschwiller. I mean … why not, right? Greg and Jan buy wine from a place there, so we did a good amount of tasting there as well, and Dan and I purchased three bottles to enjoy while we are here (we don’t want to bring anything home since we are hoping for carryon only going back), and Greg will have his bottles shipped since our car was plenty full already!

Also on the way home we stopped in Karlsruhe, saw some of the Christmas market, and ate at a place indoors since it was a bit cool for eating outside and the Christmas market didn’t have any indoor seating until later.

Finally it was time to get to Heidelberg. Greg prepared dinner (fondue). Dan and I had the lovely task of setting up fraud alerts because we received emails yesterday that our social security numbers have make it to places we don’t want them to be. Fun.

Then it was a great dinner and celebrating Jan’s birthday.