Das Wetter ist kalt!

Boeblingen and Stuttgart! Das Wetter ist kalt!

So a little bit of a catch-up here...

Thursday evening I gladly enjoyed some German Bier at Schonbuch Brauhaus (feel free to add the umlauts in your head, you know the dot symbols above some German letters, because I can't remember how to put them in right now). They brew a great Pilsner and their Hefeweizen smells and tastes exactly like a wheat beer should. I swear I could smell the banana esters from across the room. We had a great dinner and even got to sit with some of the Flasching participants in costumes. The festival here continues for the next few days in most German cities.
We enjoyed the beer so much that we found a case of 20 bottles at the local Real for under 15 Euro. Their bottled Dunkelweizen is also fantastic.


Saturday was filled with shopping explorations in the morning and Stuttgart adventures in the afternoon and evening. The downtown is absolutely gorgeous and I cannot wait until summer to walk around and sit in Schlossplatz on the main shopping street. The main street is Koenigstrasse and it was packed today even in the freezing cold. We walked for over an hour and didn't stop to shop in any of the 100 stores that line the brick road. I found my favorite clothing store in Germany already, although I have yet to own anything from there (S. Oliver).

It was my turn to pick dinner so I chose a Brauhaus! Shocker! We dined at Sophies Brauhaus and enjoyed Swabian food and delicious beer. Drinks tonight included their Hefeweizen and Schwarzbier. The later was not all that great. I wanted to be adventurous and try their Bannanen-Weizen, Hefeweizen with banana juice added, but when I asked the server if it was good she made a face and said "Nein." I will have to be adventurous another day!