The Weens in Frankenmuth

[areese]

With some Frankenmuth Dachshunds.
Frankenmuth is this touristy town, known as Michigan's Little Bavaria....originally settled by Germans in the 1840's. Home of the famous (or infamous depending on how your feel about Christmas) Bronners, world's largest Christmas store. It's about 40 minutes from my house.
Weens and the giant hay bale Wiener

Weens on the wienerdog fountain


And little Salsa.

[Lisa]

I want to go to Frankenmuth so bad! We passed it on our way home from Chicago, but we were way too pooped to stop. Can you bring them in the Christmas store? Cause I might bring Pixel.

[areese]

I want to go to Frankenmuth so bad! We passed it on our way home from Chicago, but we were way too pooped to stop. Can you bring them in the Christmas store? Cause I might bring Pixel.

I don't think you can bring dogs in the christmas store (Bronners)...it's just FULL of breakable things...and it is so amazingly gigantic I can't even describe it. ACRES of store. And it's got all this moving stuff in it up in the ceiling...trains and moving christmas decorations. It's really over the top. It would freak out my dogs I think.
I do take my weens to Riverplace (shopping area that is a replica of a village...it's new) and there's a store there called Raining Cats and Dogs with cool stuff...they go in there and they've been in the Peace Frog store there.

http://www.bronners.net/

[LUVMYGUNNER]

Amy there is nothing like X-mas in Germany. I rmember the little cobble stone streets and the smell of Gingerbread coming out of all the bakery stores. I remember snow crunching under my feet as I walked to midnight mass with my grandparents. Now I don't like the cold or snow.

[jenfer]

Looks like a neat little place to visit. :D

[Patt]

Love the pics, everyone was so good posing for them. Sounds like a great place to visit. Thanks for sharing.

[areese]

Amy there is nothing like X-mas in Germany. I rmember the little cobble stone streets and the smell of Gingerbread coming out of all the bakery stores. I remember snow crunching under my feet as I walked to midnight mas with my grandparents. Now I don't like the cold or snow.

It sounds wonderful....although I am with you about the cold and snow.
My German grandma always made the most wonderful christmases for us. Very very very special. She would make lebkuchen esp. for me with this hard white frosting....I loved that. She'd always make sure I got some extra to take home.

[LUVMYGUNNER]

My grandma started baking a few weeks before X-mas and we had all these boxes of cookies all over, she always made apple strudel and a weihnachtstollen--I hold these memories very dear. I hope I made memories like that for my children
I love Lebkuchen my mom gets it at the commisary. I also love the choco candys with liquoir in it.

[LUVMYGUNNER]

Wow that is awesome. When I was a little girl in Germany we used to go to the Kristkindle Markt--It was outdoors, almost like a fleamarket, where you could buy awesome Christmas gifts-sometimes it snowed or it was just awfully cold..

[oceangirls]

How cool! And wow, your dogs pose soooo well for pictures It took me awhile to find Salsa, though!