After the monastery and lunch, we made a quick stop at St. Hildegard Abbey. St. hildegard's is only 100 years old, but is still a working abbey, and we did not have a tour set up in advance, so we had to settle for just looking around the ground, and inside the chapel, where I stopped Ezekiel just before he was about to blow out the prayer candles  

The girls were especially interested in the tombs of deceased Abotts and other patrons of the abbey. Are they buried right here?  (step) Here? (step) Here? And that they got to see a real nun before we left. She looks just like Maria! (The Sound of Music, people). And because I know you're dying to know, Emi did great the whole day. The next day, no so much....

Posted by sahmto4orMore

Love the pics and updates!

Posted by Grammy

It all looks so much fun....I'm so happy you all got to go! Sorry it took me awhile to remember to check to see if you had pics on here.....love you guys. Oh yeah and a belated Happy Birthday to Adam (oops)..