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This is the story of how a baby named Annika took her first trip to Europe. It was a lovely trip: she brought her toys and her pacifier and diapers and some tasty baby food. She also brought her parents, Jenelle and Jonathan, because a princess like Annika can’t travel properly without servants.
A friend of Jenelle kindly offered to drive them to the airport on the morning of their departure. Jenelle and Jonathan unloaded their luggage and the airport and carted it to the check-in counter. But, while waiting at the counter, Jonathan realized he had left something in the car.
THEY HAD FORGOTTEN ANNIKA!
Not really. But Jonathan did forget to take the camera out of the car. They tried to call Jenelle’s friend and ask her to return to the airport, but by the time they reached her it was too late. So, they left on vacation without a camera.
Lufthansa airlines was good to Annika. On the 10-hour flight from Portland to Frankfurt, she had a bassinet to sleep in, baby food to eat, and free toys. Lufthansa wasn’t too bad to her parents, either: the flight attendants handed out chocolate bars over and over.
It was the next day by the time they arrived in Frankfurt and caught their connecting flight to Munich. So, everyone was tired by the time they arrived in Munich. They picked up their rental car, a trusty Mercedes A-Class compact car (no, not a luxury car) and drove to their vacation apartment south of Munich.
The vacation apartment was in a little village southwest of Munich near a lake called the Starnberger See. Holzhausen was a lovely, typical southern Bavarian place with farms and an onion-domed church on a hill.
They stayed on a small dairy farm in the middle of the village, called Moarhof. The house was a little over 100 years old and was owned by a friendly Bavarian couple with two young daughters.
The main priority after arriving at the farm was a good night’s rest (Bavaria being 9 hours ahead of Oregon). Lucky for Annika, she had her own bedroom at the farm. Annika and her parents spent the next day driving around the area, buying groceries and a little camera. They also found time for an evening stroll around Holzhausen.
The next day they toured some of the Munich suburbs, including Dachau, site of the first concentration camp, which is now a memorial.
