Trip to town with PICTURES

Yay!! I finally remembered to bring the camera with us to town!!

We had a good day today. We took the train back into the center of town - to the Schlossplatz - where they were having a United Buddy Bear exhibit. I mentioned it before in another post, but a quick recap, they have bears painted individually representing all the nations in the world. They're beautifully painted and on display for you to take pictures and look at. They travel with this exhibit, apparently, all over the world. We got lucky to catch them in Stuttgart.

After looking at the bears we took a walk around and looked at some places we didnt get to see last time. Today was market day but unfortunately we missed most of them but we did get to go into the more "prestigious" (ie expensive) one LOL. The food in there was FABULOUS. It all looked like it was plastic. They had fruits and veggies and meats and cheeses from all over the world. It was a food connoisseur's dream, Dad, I think you would have loved it. I was tempted to buy something but I mostly just wanted to look for now. Of course, I'm not regretting it because I cant get the thought of those rasberries out of my head. LOL

Ok, I took TONS of pictures. Most of them I put in a slideshow at the bottom of this post here for you all to look at. If I put them up individually, this post would be FOREVER long. But I will point out a few here and tell you about them. :) (remember you can click on these pictures to view them in full size)

Here is one of the many Buddy Bears we took pictures of. Of course, this one is the bear representing the USA.



These two here are Schlossplatz. The bears are all lined up around these fountains. There's also a lot of nice lush grass to lay or sit and have a picnic in. :)




This is a gorgeous little market square right next to the Schlossplatz. The church, the building on the left, is both a protestant and a catholic church all in one. D. was told on his German orientation class about this building. The instructor pointed out that at the top of the church is a cross and a rooster. The Cross represents the Catholic and the rooster is for Protestant (because of the cock crowing 3 times before Peter betraying Jesus). You can just see them on the top of the church there in this picture.



Below is the slide show, it might take a few minutes to load there are a ton of pictures in it. Each picture is labeled with a title to give you an idea of what it is. :) Enjoy!