Schwarzwald - Black Forest - Schauinsland

On Sunday, we awoke to another beautiful day (blue skies and sun!) and a wonderful continental breakfast (German style) at the hotel.  They had the best hot chocolate!!  We first headed to Schauinsland which is a mountain just outside of Freiburg.  While driving through the town, we found another beautiful church that we had to take a picture of out the window of the car.

When we got to the bottom of Schauinsland, we discovered that you could either hike up it or take a cable car to the top.  Since there were other things we wanted to see that day and we had to make it back to Ueberlingen for church at 5:30, we decided to go the shorter route and take the cable car.  We hope to go back someday and perhaps hike the mountain because there were some great trails at the top too.

We had great views from the cable car and once we got to the top.  We even saw some yellow trees!  They were actually evergreens that had yellow-ish colored needles.

There were some good places to take some pictures, so I had to take a few of Brian since I had the camera.

While we were sitting and looking at the city of Freiburg (the city you can see behind Brian in the picture above), we saw this bird come.  We figured out that it was a woodpecker and I actually got a picture of it!

We then got to the top of the mountain and found a lookout tower to climb.  It was my favorite to climb since it was quite high and was quite windy, but we made it to the top and got some great pictures!

A little ways from where we were, there was a sun observatory.  You couldn't go up to it, but we got a picture of it from above.

We had a great view of the mountains and could even figure out which was we live from where we were because they had a map of the different mountains from where we were.

We then walked around some of the trails at the top of the mountain.  There were lots of different wooden statues, so we had to take pictures of them!

We then spotted this stone statue/monument in the distance and had to figure out what it was.  When we got to it, we were pleasantly surprised to find that there was writing in English on it!  It told the story of some English boy scouts that got lost on the mountain and 5 of them died from exhaustion.

After taking in the view another time, we headed back to the top of mountain and had lunch in the restaurant there before heading back down the mountain and on to our next stop.