Schwaebisch Hall

So, on Sunday we spent the day traveling to Ansbach to look at a van for our family. Yipee! Although now it turns out that we're not going to get it, we still had a great day Sunday.

On the way back home, we stopped in Schwaebisch Hall for lunch. It was on our list of places to see, and it was a glorious day. As we entered the town, we saw a sign saying it was Freund Tag, and so we knew something had to be going on. We parked near the river on the lower half of the town, and walked towards the music. The buildings here seem to tower over you as you stroll because the stadt is built into the hillside, which emphasizes their height.

We were all excited to hear the traditional music playing, and happy to see that they had a small fest set up in the marktplatz, including a stage and vendors with all kinds of treats. We decided to have lunch on the sidewalk of a hotel that looks over everything that was going on. We enjoyed the different entertainers very much, excepting the modern, horrible dancing by some pre-teens set to distasteful, lustful modern music. But, beside that bad sideshow, the rest of it was great.

We detoured for a few minutes into the church that overlooks the platz. Follow this link to see pictures of the stairs to this place, as I didn't get any pics. Inside was lovely, with lots of what looked like newly done paintings. Ariel had a good lesson of Christ's sacrifice on the cross because this place had real colors on the statue of Jesus, including the blood. She was upset because she thought that they turned the real Jesus into a statue, and we had to explain that it's just a reminder of what happened, but the real Jesus is in heaven.

Shortly thereafter we left and stopped at the spielplatz on the way back to the car. It was a new one, and the kids had fun on it. It was along the river amongst large shade trees, and very lovely. We had a fun day, and Ariel wants to take Grandpa & Grandma there to play. I'd like to go back because we didn't see any of the upper part of the city. It was a really cool place to see.