Day 14 - Domsheide/ Altstadt (Cathedral and old town) :)

19.02.12 - Sunday, Sonntag

After fighting with the internet for the past few days to upload my video of me reading Cinderella, I finally gave up and we went downtown.

Am ersten, we made our way to a tram stop of #3 and #10, I thought both went to Domsheide so when we missed the 3, it wasn't a big deal. However, the sun turning to pouring rain to hail was a little annoying. We caught the 10, but it turns out we had to get off and back-track a little because it didn't go to Domsheide. While getting off in Sielwall, we noticed a Baeckerei that a lot of people were going into. We figured we'd try it out later after we toured the Dom (St.-Petri-Dom, Saint Peter Cathredral [Lutheran I found out later]). Which, when we arrived, was closed. The sign out front said it was supposed to be open, many other people were confused too. I decided to take this opportunity to take a picture of the outside. Which, you may remember being the backdrop for the ACTA protest. I apologize now that some pictures are a little blurry, I wasn't sure I could use flash and the lighting wasn't perfect on such a gloomy day.

Christus spricht ich bin das Licht der Welt wer mir nachfolgt der wird nicht wandeln in der Finsternis.
Christ said, I am the light of the world, who follows me will not wander in darkness.

I have a lot more pictures to show you. The first one is a McDonald's in an old building. I thought it was interesting.

After visiting the Cathedral, we decided to wander around the Alte Stadt. Here's a few pictures of the alley-way and I took a picture of a cool clock, not realizing it was actually a Glockenspiel until we made our way back towards the tram stop. It was a Sunday, so most places were closed, like the candy store, unfortunately.

 I mentioned in an earlier post about the four musicians, well, I finally found them! You can see in this picture where it is touched the most because it is polished. I noticed several other statues around had polished areas, namely an upper torso of a woman, which had similar coloring. I'll leave it at that. Lastly, I also noticed a lot of graffiti on the buildings in the open market area that was shown earlier. None of it graphic, just random words or signatures.

Mehr Alt Stadt Bilder (Pictures)

After all that fun was done, we made our way back the the Baeckerei named Weymann. It was DELICIOUS! Here's a few pictures for reference. Also, I had my first Berliner, sadly not in Berlin, but Germany is close enough! Rachel also had hot chocolate made from real chocolate and not some mix, you could definitely tell, especially by the huge grin on her face. :) Looking at these pictures is making me hungry all over again.

And why yes, I did enjoy eating one of JFK's kin. I thought you would never ask.

For the rest of the evening, I practiced mein Referat (My speech/ presentation), did homework, and crawled into bed about 9.