Girls Weekend

On Friday I headed to Nuremberg, Germany with my girlfriends for the weekend. This was my first weekend away from my children since they were born so I was VERY excited. The drive to Nuremberg was easy and uneventful. We found our apartment rental easily which was nice. I forgot to call the apartment owner when we were thirty minutes outside the city so we had to wait a little bit to get into our apartment but that was no big deal. I was happy to stand there with friends and not have children whining about having to wait. When we got into the apartment it was nice. It wasn't fancy or decorated in my style but it was clean and comfortable. We dropped our stuff off and headed into town. The train station was a 2 minute walk from our rental. We figured out the ticketing system (or at least we bought a ticket) which I was surprised did not have instructions in English. You are probably wondering why I would be surprised to not see English when I'm in a German speaking country. I was surprised because first, even the Czech train system has instruction in Czech and English and second, it is Germany and I have never had a problem speaking English while in Germany. It seems most people in Germany speak English very well. In any event, we bought a ticket and rode the 4 stops into town. Nuremberg is such a cute town! I really didn't know what to expect of Nuremberg since when I hear Nuremberg I think the Nuremberg trials and Nazis. The town was so cute though and there was tons of shopping. We spent the rest of Friday shopping and eating to our hearts content.

More friends showed up on Saturday morning and we headed back into town for more shopping and to go to the Christmas Market. The Christmas Market was our main reason for going to Nuremberg since it Germany's most famous Christmas market and over 2 million people a year go to it. The market was a lot of fun and was packed with people, even in the rain. I bought Nuremberg Prune men to put in the girls' stockings for Christmas. These are, apparently, one of the things that the Nuremberg market is known for. The prune men are made out of prunes, figs, and walnuts! After checking out all the stalls at the market and hitting a few more stores we had dinner and hot chocolate then headed back to our rental and hung out and chatted. We stayed up late and slept late this morning.

After getting all of our stuff together and loading everything in the car this morning we headed into town for brunch and to pick up a few last minute items. It was a great weekend and hopefully the first of many! Also, since it was raining and my hands were loaded down with shopping bags I didn't get too many pictures of the city itself. I guess I'll just have to go back again sometime soon.