Day 4--Part 2 Lubeck

We arrived in Lubeck and found our small hotel without a problem. The problem came when trying to park the car in the TINY underground 1 car garage. I scraped and dented the passenger door. Needless to say, this little experience pretty much ruined the rest of my day. I just knew it would be terribly expensive addition to our trip. I'll just say that I wish I had better memories of that chunk of money that I have to send to the rental company this week :(

We walked over to the downtown area, stopping first at the Holsten Tor, probably the most famous landmark in the area.

Holsten Tor, with Petrikirche Tower in background on the right

Maren, me, Aubrey in front of the Tor (gate)

Carson has always had a fascination with cannons, probably fueled i n part by all the ones we saw when we lived in England. So I wasn't surprised to see this picture turn up on the camera

We continued on our walk to the Petrikirche (St. Peter's Church) and went up the tower to see the city from up high. Lubeck is famous for it's seven towers, but we could only count six. Don't know where the other one is. Aubrey also pointed out the area of town that he had lived in when he served there.

Aubrey was anxious to take us to his favorite döner stand for dinner, so we decided to save the rest of our sightseeing for the next day. Plus, it was almost time for the Germany-Greece soccer game (Euro Cup 2012). (To find out about döner, read my post here) We had dinner at the City Doner and everyone else gave them a thumbs-up (my appetite was non-existent, see first paragraph for why). We made a quick stop at the train station for a map of the area, then headed back to our hotel to watch the soccer game. I fell asleep long before it was over, but the kids enjoyed seeing Germany win the game to put them in the quarter-finals of the Euro Cup. (Unfortunately they lost their next game, so no cup for Germany this time.)


(I apologize for the sizing, I can't figure out what Blogger did here. I changed size several times, re-typed, and tried everything I know to fix it, and it looks right on my draft screen. Once I hit publish, it seems to have a  mind of its own...)