Two P-day Adventures

A week ago Brian and I went back to Bayreuth (pronounced Bi-roit).  We saw the gardens a week earlier, but didn't get into the city so decided to check it out.  It isn't the most beautiful or most quaint of cities, but still very nice.  I guess we get spoiled with all the wonderful towns and cities around here.  This is the city plaza.

The area around the plaza is the opera district.  This fountain was across from the Opera House pictured below.  They have an opera festival here every year and tickets are very sought after.  I understand they are very expensive and very hard to get with long waiting lists.  I guess that won't be one of the things on our "to do" list.

This is the opera house.  Bayreuth is famous because Wagner lived here for 10 years.  He is "the" famous German opera composer.  This is not his opera house, however.  He did build an opera house here but we didn't see it.  This is the beautiful one.  Evidentally, his is very plain both inside and out.  It would have been nice to see it, but we didn't know where it was.  Sometimes not speaking the language can be a pain.   We can't even read the signs!

We did go into the opera house as I really wanted to see the inside  As you can see it is very ornate.  I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong by taking pictures so I just took this one.  They had a film presentation, but we didn't get much out of it as it was in German.

They have a lovely park just behind the Wagner museum.

This was Wagner's home and is now a museum.  We went in and it was nice to see, but again, everything was in German.  Franz Lizt also had a home in the area.

Today, October 4th, another P-day.  We went with the four elders in our district to Parkstein, which is just down the road from us.  Elders Aubrey and Harrison had tracted in the area and found this lovely little town built on a hill with a church at the very top.  

That's the church up there on that rock.

Another view of the church as we were climbing up to the top.

We were reward with a great view of the whole area.  It didn't seem so misty when we were up there, but the photo seems to show it.

Here we are.  Aren't we lucky!

Our "boys" as we like to call them.  They are so nice to invite us to tag along with them.

What grand creations Heavenly Father has created for us to enjoy.  It was very peaceful up to the top.  There were benches to sit on and just enjoy the view.

Brian and I had our first meal at a sit-down German restaurant.  The meal was very good so we will definitely go back.  It was a nice afternoon spent with the best of company.