Visiting the Christmas Markets in Germany.

We love the freedom of having a car now and we decide to take a short 2 hour trip and drive to Dusseldorf Germany to visit and see the Christmas markets. What was suppose to be a 2 hour drive turned out to be a 5 our drive because we left at 4pm in the afternoon on a Friday and went through a lot of rush hour traffic through ever city we drove which was a lot of cities. So instead really we sat in rush hour traffic for 3 hours and then we drove for 2 hours to Germany and got there at 9:00 at night. We had a short stop also because Brooke threw up along the way. The beginning of our Christmas sickness started that day.

As we got to Germany we discovered that our GPS unit that we purchased on sale only came with maps for the Netherlands and didn't have maps for Germany. So we did our best to follow signs and somehow amazingly we found our hotel. We were so happy to climb into bed and go to sleep that night.

The next morning we woke up and we went to Konnigstraat in down town Dusseldorf to do some shopping. This was also tricky with out the gps. But luckily Germany has very nice street signs and we found our way around.

Our first stop was to find food. We were a bit hungry so we went in the first place we found with suitable breakfast food. It happened to be a Dunkin Donuts. The girls loved their donuts for breakfast.

The shopping was so nice. The malls were beautiful. Being inside was just like being inside a mall at home. Brian and I found the similarities kind of funny especially since here they do not have malls like that here in the Netherlands.

The Christmas markets were beautiful but also packed full of people. They had really neat wood toys and christmas items to buy. We found Giant Chocolates that we bought to give to friends for christmas.

We stopped and played with the girls to. It snowed on us a bit to along the way. We enjoyed some good food at the market and just had fun. Dusseldorf was a beautiful city to visit. I am really glad we went to visit.