Nurnberg

This past weekend we decided to visit Nurnberg. We had a lot of fun. We went inside the walled city, and saw a few of the old churches and buildings. We had to taste some of their famous Nurnberg bratwurst and Lebkuchen (their famous spiced cookies). Nurnberg is also famous for their Christmas Market, so we are planning to visit again in December.

Most of our day was spent at the Zoo. It was beautiful and definitely comparable to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Reilyn was so excited to see the elephants, and just our luck, the elephants were not there! :) We stayed in a hotel in a small city outside of Nurnberg called Furth. As we drove up the street our hotel was supposed to be on, we saw a big carnival which was blocking the street. We drove around for about 45 minutes trying to figure out how to get the hotel, then we decided that we would just park, and walk through the big crowd. We ended up enjoying the carnival and all the different foods. We took Reilyn on the Ferris Wheel, and then put her on a kids version of the swing ride. She was a little timid at first and then got into it, and wanted to go more! It was really interesting to see all the different booths and foods. They had a lot of meats and sausages, and dried fish and pig. We enjoyed it. Here's a few pictures from Nurnberg...

Church doors

A closer look at the details of the doors

Reilyn being a little cutie at the marketplace. She was excited to see the gords!

Reilyn acting little a monkey at the zoo. (This one's for you Dad-- Monkey man)