Train ride to Strasbourg, we discovered that taking pictures out the train window is a great way to pass the time!
Look Dad, a field!
Train window pictures
Just discovered new settings on my camera - everything's better in sepia!
See?
Tyler and Dan on the train.
Natalie and Ben
More fields!
Laura on the train
Official Strasbourg Christmas Market Mugs.
Ladies who made my galette.
Best Disocovery: Fruit on a stick! Specifically "clementines" which are basically less awesome satsumas, put on a stick and dipped in dark chocolate. Why didn't we think of this when we had a whole orchard of citrus trees?
Ornament Painters
It wouldn't be a French town without a carousel.
The ridiculously ornate Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg.
Escargots! Yum! You can see the Pretty Woman-esque prongs in the bottom left.
I had to write down the name of this dish to remember it: Cuisse de canard confite due choucrute. Duck thigh on sauerkraut.
Bus stop bright and early.
Petit France in Strasbourg.
Crazy hanging Santa decorations they had EVERYWHERE.
Sausage! Or "knacks."
Russia was the guest country with booths and things, including the little nesting dolls!
Strasbourg: Capital of Christmas? More like Capital of Funny Hats.
Architecture of Strasbourg.
Inside Notre Dame Cathedral.
Advent! Best liturgical season ever!
Climbing up spiral staircases to the top of Notre Dame.
Views from Notre Dame.
Views from Notre Dame: markets!
Views from Notre Dame: panorama.
Everything's better in sepia.
Ice rink we had skated on the night before.
Entrance to one of the markets.
Market, booths and weird trees.
More fruit on a stick!
A beret + not smiling = French!
Natalie is a better French person than I am.
Last picture before my camera battery died!
Proof I went ice skating again.