My weekend in France!

Saturday In France,

I got up at 7:00 and went with my uncle to pick up Broetchen (bread) to eat for breakfast. We then got back and got everything together and had a German breakfast. We had hard boiled eggs with a half soft yoke in special little stands. They eat eggs different over here. Instead of taking all the time to peal the shell you just cut the top of the egg and then scoop it all out. Talk about efficient! We also had fruit and bread with Nutella and jelly. It was a very good breakfast. After we ate I quickly got on the computer and finished up my blog on Yesterday and then helped with the dishes. We then made sure we got packed and then headed off on our adventure to France.

It was a good trip and I slept I fair amount of the way there. I woke up very very out of it right as we were crossing the border and woke up as best I could to start looking around. The first thing I saw where some mountains in the distance with snow on the tops. We stopped at a place where there was a monument set up for where the German had attacked the French. There was a bunker there and some tanks and stuff. I was able to get some cool pictures. I also tripped and got my self a nice brown spot on my jeans from the dirt :P and it had to be the weekend I only brought on pair for over night. We ate lunch in the van and then were on our way. I do have to mention that when we got there we saw a sign that told us not to leave anything in the car because it might get stolen while “you” were away. When we were out looking around we were the only ones there and while I was around back taking some pictures my aunt saw me crouching and thought I was some thief watching them… we all thought that was funny.
We drove on and saw more really cool houses and villages. My aunt had commented on how the houses seemed very bland and from that point on we saw a large number of houses that were very abstract and colorful… we kind of teased her for saying they were bland. I wanted to take some pictures, but there were a couple people in need of the WC (bathroom) and we needed to keep pressing on. With in the next 15 minutes we learned a very important fact about the French… they obviously don’t ever need to use the bathroom because you can never find one anywhere! We decided to just go to our hotel because we knew they would have one. We got there and checked in and got a pass to open the gate to the parking garage. The van barely fit in under the archway, but we made it!
The rooms are really nice and really small. They are all three people bedrooms and they have bunk bed type beds. We then got our stuff and headed out to the museum we came here to see. We left and started walking and I noticed my camera battery was a little low so I then walked back and got it and then we were officially on our way. We got to the museum and it was filled with all the sculptors that made. There was one floor that had all these squeaky floor boards and it was very tricky to walk across the room with out making a squeak. After that we walked around Colmar and looked at different shops and then went to a church where there was a really famous painting and alter piece. I wasn’t aloud to take any pictures though. It had a really tall ceiling and had some really descriptive and detailed stained glass. After that we found a place to eat. Once we did we sat down and quickly found out that there was an inappropriate channel on the T.V. so we all had to turn and keep our eyes on each other and not be sucked in by the tube. I ordered a potato dish that was kind of like hash browns with some really good cheese in them with some ham sausages mixed in. It came out in this skillet and was still sizzling. It was very good! I found out mayo is really good with it when I ate 6 packets of mayo :P

After we ate it was dark out and we decided to walk to a small part of Colmar that was called small Venice. It had some canals and the houses were all lit up really nice. It was a very nice walk in the cool night air and the lights all over. It was a very unique experience that I won’t forget. We then spotted a Crepe shop and stopped and got some Crepes with Nutella. I’m seriously into Nutella now and have it when ever I can. It’s so amazing on bread in the morning. I’m going to have to try and get some when I get back into the states… though we won’t have the amazing bread. We then made our way back to the hotel and got ourselves settled. I went over to the room my cousins were staying in and hung out with them for a little bit.
We watched some Miss France show where they had all these live performers. We watched some amazing balancing acts on rolling tubes and a guy who took the head of this lady and then made it float around… we also so this amazing juggler who juggled and rolled the balls around his body. It was really cool. We also watched some soccer. Saturday night wass day lights savings time for over here so now it's 7 hour difference!

My adventure continues with... France... On a Sunday...