A Different Kind of Labor Day

Ah, the last days of summer!! Labor Day has always been a favorite holiday of mine, the end of summer and the beginning of fall; back to school shopping and an air of excitement and new beginnings. This year I did something different. The smell of cork replaced the smell of unsharpened No. 2 pencils as I went on a wine tasting cruise on the Rhine river in Germany.

The landscape was simply breath taking and I will let the pictures speak for themselves. The 2 women you will meet are my new friends from work, Cyndy and Z. It was a good time of shared appreciation of wine and culture, and at times uncontrollable laughter and silly behavior.

The iron basket you see hanging is not one for plants. It actually is a torture instrument, where one would have to stand in the basket hanging some 400 feet in the air, and think about what they had done wrong. I climbed the stairwell in order to get a better picture and leaning out the window, I thought Holy Cow! If I had ever been ordered to stand in that thing with the spear coming up from the bottom in the middle of the basket, I think I would have leaped and been done with it.

Enjoy your trip on the Rhine.