Great day. We started out in Schleswig at Schloss Gottorf. Beautiful building with lots of interesting exhibits. I particularly like one about life in the Middle Ages from the town to the city to the monastery to the castle. Then we went to the Globushous with an enormous globe that on the outside looked like the earth as it was understood in the 1700's with the continents and oceans and then ten people could sit inside it and observe the heavens with the stars and the constellations painted on the inside of the globe. And it turned as you sat there. Fascinating. We had a great lunch at a restaurant called Luzifer - I had Labskous, a typical regional dish of potatoes with corned beef and beets, Matjes, pickles, and beets. We all had what we thought was our new favorite beer, Asgaard (paradise).

Then we came back to Bordesholm for a fascinating tour of the Klosterkirche. Who knew that Ashley was an organ virtuoso?

 As usual, we were all very angelic.

The view from above the church was amazing. We were shown the way the walls were built and then taken above where on catwalks we could see the top of the ceiling from above. Then we climbed the tower through these cramped, narrow ladders. It was the kind of tour you never expect to be given. Amazing.