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| Stuttgart Weihnachtsmarkt |
We packed up and left for Stuttgart, where we planned to spend the night and check out the Weihnachtsmarket there. The barracks where the military hotel is located sit up on top of a huge hill where you have an amazing view of Stuttgart down below. It is a HUGE city compared to what I expected. I have people come in to Chili’s every now that come to visit Ramstein from their base in Stuttgart and they make it sound like it is a hole in the wall. They must be crazy because we saw a huge city with loads of activity and things to do. OK there might not be a Chili’s, but they have just about everything else there...including Starbucks. I’d gladly trade Chili’s for Starbucks!
The Weihnachtsmarkt there was huge and it was lit up and decorated very pretty. Colin was fascinated by watching a little train ride around the tracks through a mini village. Maybe next year he will be big enough to ride the train. We didn’t spend too long there, just browsed and grabbed some dinner at a seafood chain called Nordsee, and then hit up Starbucks for dessert. After that we got a little lost trying to find the parking garage, lol. Shelby and I have had this ongoing debate about why you must take your parking garage ticket with you when you leave your car. I say you must and he says you don’t have to. The reason I say you do keep it with you is because you do not see any tickets laying on the dashboards of the German cars. Also, the way the parking garages work here is you enter the garage and take a ticket. When you are ready to leave you find the machine to pay and insert your ticket, it tells you how much you owe based on how long you have been there, you pay and it validates your ticket and spits it back out at you. You go to your car and take the paid ticket to the exit and then insert it to get out of the gate. Sometimes there are automat machines all over the garage to pay and sometimes they are only on the ground floor near the walking entrance/exit to the garage. If your ticket is in your car you may have to go way out of your way to go get it and then go back to a machine to pay. Shelby agreed those were ok reasons to take your ticket with you but still didn’t see why it you couldn’t leave it in the car. So here we are wandering around downtown Stuttgart when I come up with reason number three why you keep your parking ticket on you instead of in your car. Because there are 50 different parking garages in a downtown area and your ticket has your garage name and address on it. If you get lost knowing what garage you are in and the address of the place is a huge help. I think Shel has finally decided I won that argument and guess who wants to carry his parking ticket with him, lol.
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