Our kids are good sports and braved the chilly weather twice to go to the Weihnachtsmarkt. So we bundled them up and headed downtown. Milayla gets pretty excited to get dressed up to go into the wrap.
The kids were not quite as excited once we got outside into the cold, rainy weather and put them into the bakfiets....
The plan was to head downtown, wander Weihnachtsmarkt, find our 2011 Christmas ornament and soak in the ambience before grabbing a bite to eat and heading home. It was a great plan, but we should have switched the order and eaten first. Our bag of snacks and a few Weihnachtsmarkt treats did not seem to be enough to tide Atticus over so subsequently we wandered the market to the tune of "eat, eat, eat" on repeat from our joyful little toddler. We will certainly have to remember this lesson for next year!
Before we caved to our musical toddler (sooner than we had planned), we did manage to snap a few photos...
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| The boys. |
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| The girls. |
Some of the stalls had some incredibly ornate, handcrafted Christmas decorations. Some other stalls had decorations that left you wondering who might buy them (a wooden elf with the face of Mr. Bean, anyone?). One of our absolute favorites was this hand-carved Nativity Scene; wish we could have caught a better photo of it as this photo does not do it justice.
The ambiance of the market was lovely and we were very happy that the rain and clouds cleared while we looked around.
And we even successfully found our 2011 Christmas Ornament!
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| It's the handblown (and hand-painted!) one on the left. |
While we did enjoy our time at Weihnachtsmarkt we were all pretty grateful when we finally sat down to dinner.
