Strasburg

This is a little late so sorry. Narration by Shelly - One day in mid December my American-Lyss friend, Dorene, her friend Noa and myself got into the car and drove to Strasbourg, France. The attraction to this small town is their amazing cathedral and the biggest Christmas market in France. Strasbourg has a mixture of both French and German cultures because it is so close to the German border. We decided to have some lunch before exploring the city. The menu definitely showed the mixed of cultures with many different typical meals for both countries. I went with a menu option which came with an onion tart (French) start, 5 meats with sauerkraut and potatoes (German) meal, and a crazy "Floating" mousse (French) desert (sorry I forgot to take pictures).



The cathedral was very beautiful and contains one of the coolest clocks I have seen. I was told that it is a "Sister" clock to the one in Prague, so I will have to check that out some day.















Some of the pretty Christmas decorations around the Christmas market. We looked around the market for a while and had a few glasses of Glühwein before coming back home to Switzerland.

Brrrrrrrn

Well, Christmas and New Years were great, and it's time to get some stuff on the blog. I have a lot of stuff from December, so I'll start here with some pictures of Christmas in Bern that I took for Aaron but never got around to emailing. It was still kind of daylight when I took them so its hard to see the lights...



Bern has kind of a Christmas village feel to it anyway, so when they hang lights, it's pretty cool.








Big tree in the Christmas market area, where all gather for glühwein to warm up after shopping:



They light up the train station pretty cool-like:

Small Christmas market in front of the Münster:






First time I had seen one of the bears in a long time...

Da Bears!

Videos of one of the bears being awesome...

die Kochakivitäten

Shelly was popular this year with seasonal American awesomeness. Homemade eggnog, recipe couresy of Grandma Hoffman:


And more pumpkin pie, and chocolate chip cookies (not pictured)

Robin Hood

Also in Shelly news, the Robin Hood play was a blast. I myself was recruited for backstage duty, so unfortunaltely we are somewhat lacking in performance pictures. Here's a shot of Shell on stage doing one of her news flashes:



Hanging out backstage:


Busy scene that unfortunately doesn't have Shell in it:



Shelly as Prince John:


Special thanks to our Lyss friends that came to Bern to see the show!