We bought Hit cookies, Pick-up cookies, chocolate and candy from this heavenly factory store:
After eating our newfound treats until we had regrets, we decided to head out to town and follow the Red Thread, which is a red, painted line that runs around town past all the interesting buildings or tourist attractions. Nick even had a book with little blurbs about each spot, so we could read up on them.
Here is a photo of me in a church that had lost its roof during WWII bombings, and was never repaired:
After the red thread, Kim, Nick and I headed over to a local beergarden to watch Spain v. Germany in the semi-finals! We got there THREE AND A HALF HOURS early so we could get seats, which was lucky because by about t-3 hours all the seats pretty much gone. We spent our time showing off our German pride and drinking Bananenweizen (Germans capitalize ALL NOUNS), a banana juice/wheat beer mixture.
When the game was an hour or half an hour away from starting, more and more people tried to steal our hard-earned seats, and I got to use my new vocabulary, "schiesse nein"!
Here is the crowd from the our seats near the back:
Unfortunately, Germany played terribly and were beaten painfully by Spain, so there was no post-winning party or driving around the street waving of flags, there was just a going home and talking to Drex on Skype - which is also fun, in an unpatriotic, quiet sort of way.
That's so great you were there when they played! Were you still there when they won 3rd place? Also, when I went just before the last world cup (was that when I went with you Kim? I think it must have been) the cup was in Germany and they had a stadium built in Hannover. *wanders off while reminiscing*
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