Sunday May 17th - Day 3

Today we went to a castle - Sans Soucci. I was the first one up for the day - amazing!
Emma's quote of the day, so I asked if she had room for ice cream and she said, "sweets always just slip in."
The palace was nice. there were 10 rooms in the main castle living quarters. Then the kitchen and the bakery area were separate. So teh smells of the kitchen didn't enter the main house. Then the DamenFluegel or place for women, was also separate. When in the women's quarters we went upstairs and Emma counted 20 stairs in german and learned Die Treppe (stairs in german). She really liked it, this became a theme for our trip. James hadn't been that interested in learning the German, but he enjoys the history.
After that we went into the gardens which were magnificent. the kids enjoyed the fountains, ducks and fish. We made the long walk to Die Neuess Sans Soucci, a much bigger castle, it had really ornate wooden floors. the kids were getting pretty tired of walking. Emma was really fussing about her feet. Even my feet hurt some. We then walked into Potsdam and had a nice German meal. Emma got just noodles and cheese, and James didn't like his schnitzel which was really surprising. Claudia and her dad, Jachim, went with us the whole day, it was really nice.