shopping and sausage in aachen

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ummmm, can i have some bun with my sausaage?


aachen at night

aachen christmas market

it has been so hard to access a computer and download pics!! j couldn't get the internet access working in our room in germany, so i was trying to use the computer in the lobby, but between waiting to use it, german keyboards and a lost camera cord, it was difficult. oh yeah, and a baby on my lap! anyways, i'm in my room now, but i don't have long b/c i need to go shopping @ 10 to try beat the 1.2 million shoppers that come to aachen to do the same thing i'm trying to do.

we got to aachen, germany on sunday night. barely got the rental car loaded, then cruised down the autobahn to our hotel. hotel is really nice and modern, and in the middle of shopping paradise. we had an amazing dinner of delicious tenderloin steaks on sunday night with a couple winnipegers and a german that j is working with. monday was filled with shopping mayhem. i thought i would have the shops to myself on a monday afternoon, but i was very wrong! it was shoulder to shoulder everywhere! i now understand what my engineering girlfriend said after returning from germany...people just walk into you and don't even acknowledge you. i need to be more aggresive today! yesterday i was in a shop for 20 minutes, first i picked out my gingerbread, then someone cut in front of me in line, and picked up my gingerbread off the counter and bought it! i wanted to object, but all i can say in german is thank you. oh well.

i bought the biggest sausage on the smallest bun! i think the bun is only there to make it easy to carry aroud your sausage. it was delicious!! crispy skin and oh so juicy. then i saw a guy selling sausage off a stand he was wearing! he had a propane tank on his back and a grill hanging off his shoulders...too funny! i think i will buy sausage off him today.

i gotta go...10 am shops open.