france

this morning we peeked into the nurmburg market just to see it in the light.  we also enjoyed a second helping of the yummiest treat of the trip:  apples breaded then fried and topped with vanilla sauce.  they were so delicious.  we ate them while talking to a japanese couple who live in munich but are from a small town in japan that they thought we would never know, but it's a town craig has been to many times.  small world.

on our way to our final destination in france tonight, we stopped over at the rothenburg christmas market.  i'm telling you, we could have stayed all of december and not run out of markets.  rothenburg is a lovely old walled town in germany.  this was my third visit, but i've never been there in december. 

then we drove into france.  our destination was strasbourg.  craig and i were talking on the way about the fact that strasbourg is in a region of france near the border of germany.  this area has changed hands between france and germany a few times because it's a fertile area.  as we were driving, we were wondering what strasbourg would look like--whether it would look like german or france.  i was amazed that immediately upon driving into strasbourg, the architecture completelly changed to wrought-iron railings and french architecture.  the strasbourg market was the only christmas market with chandelier decorations outside.  that's definitely french.

at home today, jake's school choir got to sing at the assembly hall on temple square.  we heard it was amazing!