Last night we relaxed a bit back at the house. We went for pizza at Jimmy’s Pizzaria – a place I remember from 12 years ago. I was free to order Funghi – mushrooms. Delicious!

We also had quite the storm overnight. It made for very little sleep, unfortunately – but the thunder was quite impressive. This morning it is just raining lightly. We’re on our way down to Stephan’s house in Carbon, about an hours drive from Alten Kirchen where we are staying. This afternoon we will head down to the Auto u. Tecnik Museum in Stuttgart, where we’ll spend most of the day. One of the big attractions there is one of the French Concordes, and a Russian version of the Concorde.

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We spent the day at the museum. There are way too many pictures (over 100) to post here. And, many of our pictures didn't turn out quite right as we've been having terrible problems with the camera. But it was an amazing museum. There were many Kubels, and in one shot we were able to take 3 Schwimmers all in the same frame! Of course there were many Mercedes, Ferarris, and more.

We got to tour the Concorde SST and the Russian version - the Topalov. They are mounted on an angle at the top of one of the museum buildings, so you would climb stairs to get to the plane, then UP the body of the plane to 100 stories to the cockpit/nose of the plane. In the Topalov, Vladamir (Stephan's nephew) started to jump up and down, shaking the plane - I had to make a quick exit.