8:46
AM
Friday, December 29
Our first full day
in the Mosel Valley gets off to a rather slow start. We have some issues with the Airbnb and wait
around until early afternoon for the maintenance man, who eventually arrives
with an entire new fold-out bed to deal with the broken leg on the existing one
that Chloe and Terry are sleeping on (first night we used a stack of books to
substitute). The bed came unassembled,
so Kurt, Terry, Cherry and I all assisted with bringing in the new, taking out
the old and assembling the pieces.
About 2 pm we are
finally ready to head to town. We are in
a little village about 2 miles from the larger town of Traben-Trarbach. We are in the heart of wine country and the town
was having a "Wein Nachts Markt" which was a play on words so that it
sounds much like the Christmas markets in other cities but here there were four
wine cellars that had been converted into stalls selling various crafts.
We found parking in
a public lot and people decided to head off in various directions and to
rendezvous at 4 pm back in the vans. As
people started heading off, we realized that Cherry was not with us. Just about the same time as we make this
discovery Donovan's phone rings. We've left Cherry behind at the Airbnb.
We had gathered on
the front porch and I was counting people. We had 10 outside and Terry, Jennie
and Kurt were still inside. Somehow I
had missed that Cherry ran back in to grab her glasses, and when the other three
came out, we locked the door (locking her in) and left. A quick drive back and we rescued her. The manager had already let her out and she
was waiting for us on the front porch.
The new plan is to count to 13 before we pull away from any location.
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