The Weens in Frankenmuth

[areese]

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..

You might just like Frankenmuth...it's kinda hokey and some of the more authentic places have closed...we used to go eat at a restaurant called Franken Icht that was real german food...couldn't read the menu but it reminded me so much of my grandma (father's side...we are Herpolsheimers) I just loved going there but it closed...
There's a replica of the chapel where "Silent Night" (Or Stille Nacht to be more accurate) was first sung, on the property at Bronners.
I dunno why but I really just always love Frankenmuth.

[Tanya]

Love the gigantic doxie and the fountain. I want to go to Frankenmuth too! We should have a small DLC meet-up there...Amy, Lisa, me, anyone else?? :D

[Lisa]

Love the gigantic doxie and the fountain. I want to go to Frankenmuth too! We should have a small DLC meet-up there...Amy, Lisa, me, anyone else?? :D

I am totally in! Just let me know when and I am there.

[areese]

Love the gigantic doxie and the fountain. I want to go to Frankenmuth too! We should have a small DLC meet-up there...Amy, Lisa, me, anyone else?? :D

I'm in of course! I wonder if they are having another dachshund fest there next summer???

[Alex's Mom]

Love the gigantic doxie and the fountain. I want to go to Frankenmuth too! We should have a small DLC meet-up there...Amy, Lisa, me, anyone else?? :D

If I can make it to Ontario, I'd LOVE to come too!!! We lived in Germany for 3 years when I was a teenager, and I have wonderful memories of the big Christmas market in Nuremburg...it was incredible!!! I'd love to go back someday.

[lotsadox]

Oooh, I want to go to Frankenmuth. I"ve got a sign from there and an advertising figurine and Miller, the clone of the Frankenmuth dachshund. I WANT TO GO TO FRANKENMUTH! :hissy:

[Da Brat]

OMG! First I simply adore the pictures.. Second ya'll got me crying like a school girl! My Omi always made Christmas the best! I miss her cooking sooooo much! I would KILL for an authentic "german pancake" complete with sugar or applesauce!! My one goal in life is to vist Germany during each of the seasons!! I so miss the traditions my Omi carried out every year (I miss my Omi too).

[Mama S.]

WOW - a trip down memory lane with all this talk of Germans! If anyone goes to Bronners and see's the doxie ornaments that Rae got - I HAVE MONEY... They are not on the website or in their catalog (I ordered it) I wannnttt theemmm!!
What would I kill for??? I don't know it's official name but my Mom made thie pecan nut roll thingy - it was a heavy dough with pecans sprinkled all through it - it was probably as long as a cookie sheet - she curved it then sliced across the top to open it up a bit - she would literally hide the thing in her room as we would all die for it!!
St Nicholas Day - who put their shoe out?!
Wonderful memories!!
Mama

[Chris]

We used to go to Zehnders for the chicken. And the tradition was to go to Brohner's in the middle of the summer. If you ever are in need of a beer stein with a dancing boy in leiderhosen and a girl in a drndl on it - then that's where you get them. ( or more like a glass mug)

When we used to drive up there when we were kids, on the way some church bought a sign/not quite a billboardy thing that has the picture of Jesus with the sacred heart and it says "Are you on the right road??" And my brother and I used to kid our dad to turn the car around because he must have missed the turn.

St Nicholas day we didn't have in Michigan but it was a huge deal on about December 9th-ish when we lived in Wisconsin which had a huge germen population. It was a real big deal there.