Day 11

Day 11
Today we woke up late and it was raining. It made it so hard to get up. We debated about going to Nurnberg but it was already 9:30 and shops close at 4, so we decided to wait until Tuesday to go. We were going to go to Neunenstein castle, but couldn’t find it on the map. Instead, we went to Schwabisch Hall. There’s supposed to be a castle there, but we never saw it. Instead, it’s a medieval town with half-timbered houses and it’s a quaint little town.
After parking, we went walking around town and first stop was a toy store. We got our friend Chell’s son his Christmas present. Chell and Chris are going to hate us. We got her son wooden toys: whistle, flute, noise maker and something else. We get to give him the toys and go home. Ain’t life beautiful? After walking through the toy store, we walked around town, in the rain. We came up on St Michael’s. We’re going to have to some research on the church. We didn’t take any pictures inside, but did get the outside. The inside was unusual. There were carvings from the 1400s, stone carvings that were much older, and a section of the floor cut away with plexi-glass and a multitude of skeletons and I’m guessing that there were more skeletons underneath the entire church. I’m really going to have to do some research on the church. The inside of the church was very gothic and made you look up to every focal point. Have you noticed a theme with all the churches around here? 90% of them are gothic churches. Nothing wrong with that.
After leaving St Michael’s, we walked around town and went to what we thought was another church. It turns out that it’s not a church, but an art museum with free admission. The paintings displayed were original works from between 1450-1575 and different German artists. Very few of these paintings were behind glass. They were out in the open for you to look, admire and maybe touch. I had to leave my bag in a locker, but that’s no biggie. In America, this wouldn’t happen. If they had an exhibit like this, all the paintings would be behind bullet proof glass and guarded by police. Around here, you walk around and see something that’s several centuries old just standing out in the open for people to look at. It’s amazing the difference in the cultures and the respect they seem to give this stuff. It’s like they see it so much that they have a different view of it than we do.
After the church and art museum, we had our first taste of German Chinese food. We’ve already had German American, *news flash: now it’s time for our happy bell ringer!* German fast food, German German, and German Mexican. Uh….German Mexican wasn’t the best; I wouldn’t recommend it, ever. German Chinese wasn’t bad. I missed the spices and the onions to be honest. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t the best. It was rather bland and they put some stuff in there that I’m still trying to figure out what the hell I ate. I think I ate some Chinese veggies, but I’m not 100% sure. I’m hoping to try German Japanese next week with Sabsi. So far the German German and German fast food have been the best in our opinions. I’ve liked the German German and Cliff likes the fast food.
For today to be a rainy, wet, cold, windy day and we picked a spot on the map and didn’t know where the hell we were going, it ended up being a nice day. We really enjoyed it. Eating here has been an experience, let me tell you. Driving in the Autobahn has been another experience. But I’m outta here. It’s time for supper.
Me.