Thanksgiving - Rothenburg

So during this Thanksgiving, we wanted to take David to Rothenburg since he had never been there.  AJ really wanted to take him on the night watchman's tour and Michael hasn't been on it yet either. 

We stayed in the same place that my parents and I did the last time we were here.  Only we were much higher this time.  This is the view from our window in both directions.

You can see David up in the window.  It was quite a hike up to our room, but it was fun to be up so high!

The boys heading down the streets of Rothenburg!

We decided that David needed to have some ice cream at the same restaurant as we did the last time, and what is a vacation without ice cream?!?

Michael's first ice cream ended up being a lemon instead of vanilla, so we bought him one scoop of vanilla to go.

I like this church, it looks like the building is watching you!

Last time we were here this building, the Ratstrinkstube (Councillor's Tavern) was under construction.  It looks great!  The facade of the building illustrates the legend of the Master Draught from 1631.  At the behest of Count Tilly, Mayor Nusch drank 3 1/4 liters of Franconian wine in a single gulp, thus saving Rothenburg from destruction.

In the basement of a medieval store they had this set up.  I love finding hidden treasures!

Michael ready to go to battle!

Michael and the big nutcracker outside the famous Kathy Wohlfahrt store.

They had some cute mechanical toys running around this little town.

It is a HUGE store!!  They sure do decorate it up pretty!

Michael and AJ in front of the Kathy Wholfarht car.

It is starting to get dark and look how beautiful the town looks!!!

They are sooooo cute!!!  Look at those smiles!!!  We decided to have Chinese as our Thanksgiving dinner this year.  :-)

Check out the moon and the clouds!!  Really cool!!!

The boys with the Night watchman!  This was a different one than two years ago.

He started out with a great tale!!  I loved that his voice was loud and could be heard because there were A LOT of people there that night!

Just like last time, AJ wanted to be right up front and he took Michael with him this time!

A view of one of the main streets.

This is the one house in Rothenburg that has had the same family living in it for over 400 years.  How would you like to be the one to sell it.

This is the main entrance into the town.  After they rang the bell they had an hour to get back into the walls.  If you didn't make it,  you had to pay over 6 months of your salary to get into the walls.   The tour was quite a bit different, but it was still really good and everybody thoroughly enjoyed it!

My boys heading back to our place for the evening!!  It was a great afternoon and a good start to our Thanksgiving vacation!  I really do love this little town, it is quiet and peaceful especially after 5 pm when all the day trippers are gone.