Celebrating in Freiburg

Yesterday the Mullivans celebrated our -1 year anniversary, meaning that in a year we'll be married. Going to Germany and drinking in a Biergarten seemed like the appropriate way to mark the occasion. We took a train for 45 minutes to Freiburg im Breisgau, which is one of approximately 37 Freiburgs in the vicinity. This confused us considerably when we tried to buy our tickets at the automated machine at the train station. Finally, after missing our intended train, someone explained that we had to buy tickets to anywhere outside Switzerland from an actual person. This made sense to us, since we figured they had to check our passports or something. Nope! No one checked our passports or train tickets at all yesterday, go figure.

Freiburg was a really cute town. We had no particular itinerary in mind so we just wandered. Here are some pictures:

And when you get closer to that gate, you can see:

Behind it is a Subway, and to the right was a Burger King. We were tempted by the Subway until we realized the potential perils involved with communicating all our sandwich choices in German. We did, however, partake of the new McDonalds Veggie Burger on our way out of town:

It consists of a veggie patty that was surprisingly spicy, some lettuce, American cheese and tons of mayo. Not necessarily something we'd ever buy again, but for only 1.10 Euros, we couldn't pass it up.

We also ate a lot of ice cream.

And we saw Liza's personal heaven:

One of the highlights of the town was the system of miniature canals that run along the streets:

You can let your dog or child play in them! (We saw both)

I also really liked the decorative cobblestones.

We climbed two things in town: the cathedral tower and a big hill.

A view of the latter from the former:

The view from the hill:

On the hill, we went to a Biergarten. It's that building on the top right.

We drank a decent amount of beer, including "One of the Best Beers in the World."We thought it looked like Bud Light but since it made such a bold claim, we had to try it. We decided it tasted like Corona with lemon but better.

It's not too surprising that we wanted a McDonalds Veggie Burger after all that beer. We also had more ice cream.

The Best Sticker of the Day award goes to one we saw while climbing the hill:

Hooray for Freiburg!