Freiburg Visit

My mom and Dan went to visit Eric first in Mannheim and they also visited Heidelberg. After that they drove down to Freiburg to visit me. The first night I showed them a lot of what Freiburg had to offer downtown, like the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) and the Muenster (cathedral). It was very lively downtown when they came so that was fun, but sometimes the hoards of people are too much to handle. They were getting pretty hungry so I decided to take them to a place called Tacheles, which offers a lot of different types of Schnitzel (schnitzel is basically a pork tenderloin). The weather was fairly good then, which was nice. Later we met up with my friends and went to my favorite restaurant, Kartoffel Haus, which literally means Potato House, everything they serve has potatoes in it, so delicious! I had a salmon, potato lasagne...YUM!

The next day we drove to a town called Titisee, well the lake there is actually called the Titisee, yeah funny name I know, it means Titi Lake basically. It was the perfect day to go because it was snowing and the lake is up on a mountain, it was sooo beautiful, everything was just white. The drive there was gorgeous too, but a little dangerous because we were driving up a mountain, pretty scary. My really good friend Jason Ernst came too, so that was fun. We ate at a little restaurant and had some waffles and cake. My mom ordered a Schwarzwaldkirsch Torte, Black Forest Cake, little did we know there was cherry alcohol in it, and it was so strong, I'm sure she could probably feel the alcohol after that. Me and Jason shared an apple cake/pie thing, it was awesome. After that me and Jason wanted to take a lot of pictures by the lake. It was snowing really hard still so my mom and Dan stayed in the car. Me and Jason were definitely not wearing the appropriate shoes for the weather, tennis shoes. So we had to trudge through the snow down to the lake. We finally found some stairs that lead down there, but they were covered over with snow so Jason went first and ended up just falling on his butt and sliding down...hahah he loved it because he is from Arizona and has never seen snow. So then I did it next, and went really fast down. Then we took a ton of pictures by the lake, it was almost eerie looking because there was no sun, only gray, foggy, and white snow everywhere. We also took some pictures of us jumping which turned out pretty awesome.

We finally headed back to Freiburg and then my mom and I went back into town to go shopping for family and go to the Christmas Market. Then for dinner I took her out to the Feierling Brewery, the food was really good, and I looooove their beer, it's so smooth and really tasty. Mom even had a glass, I think she liked it too, we had a good time just talking, that was really nice because we don't get much time for just the two of us.

Unfortunately because of the really snowy weather I didn't get to show them all that I wanted, like the Shauinsland in the Black Forest, the lake by my apartment, hiking, wine tasting, and much more....but next time my mom comes around May or June I will definitely take her and show her all that Freiburg has to offer, and it will be much more enjoyable in the spring/summer! I can't wait! So I hoped they enjoyed Freiburg, it is a gorgeous city, I am really going to miss it when I have to leave.

Auf Wiedersehen