This is the main street that runs by the village. Up on the hill you can see the castle. We didn't have time to go up there, but it was fun to see it from a distance. Every year on the first weekend in September they have a huge fireworks show here that Candice's family always go to. We missed it by one weekend, bummer!
So pretty! As you can see, it was a little bit rainy this day. 
I love these little streets that are not open to cars. It's so fun to walk around and see all the little shops :)
This is us standing in front of the place where we got a bite to eat. It was very tasty!
And we made hats :)
Porter and Tyler
Hayes got to wear one too :)
Candice, Hayes, and Sawyer
Briggs and Sophie
So many pretty buildings
I could not believe how skinny this little place was! It looked like it was about to tip over!
While we were standing around in the little square here, some sort of marching band came tromping through! I didn't have a chance to get a great picture of them, but it was so much fun!
Love that one on the right! The whole village was just so colorful and exactly what I think of when I picture Germany!
The village is apparently known for its vineyards. I thought it was pretty crazy how steep some of these slopes that they were growing on were.
Me and Soph :) Such a beautiful place!
Looking down into the baths.
I think the fact that it was rainy this day made it that much more beautiful.
Trying out a different pose ;) ha!
After the baths we walked over to a super awesome amphitheater that I don't know what it's called :). Along the way we passed some pretty fun things!
And here it is! Over time the stands have been covered with dirt and become grown over. There was some sort of horse show this day (which explains the horse and bleachers ;) ). Pretty cool that they're still getting use out of this space. It is so crazy to think that people used to just sit in this very spot and watch as men were pitted against each other to fight to the death. Bizarre.
This is underground where the men used to prepare themselves for battle. Also, they had big huge pits where they would keep the tigers and lions, and other animals of that nature.
Just havin some fun on the grass. Random :)
This doorway leads into the ring (or whatever you call it). This is where they would keep the animals right before the fight.
Me and my buddy Sawyer at the entrance to the amphitheater.
After the amphitheater, we walked around some more :) We made our way through the city, past some historic sites on our way to see the city's main shopping area (and to find ice cream).
This is the Trier Palace. Very pink! But very cool.
Awkward ;)
And here we are! There were definitely a lot of people on these streets. Again, so cool to see the old mixed in with the new.
The cute Jensen fam :)
This was fascinating to me. This building is actually part of the city that was influenced by Middle Eastern culture. You can see how there is a door halfway up the face of the builiding; Apparently, homes used to be built like this for safety. In order to get into the home, someone from inside had to lower down a rope ladder, and then the ladder was raised so that no one else could get inside. They have obviously reconstructed the building so that you can get in from the ground floor, but I thought it was so cool that they kept that original door there. Very interesting!
This is the very home where Karl Marx was born. Crazy. If only we'd known then ;)
AND, a short stop for spaghetti ice! My neice and nephews had been DYING to get these the whole time we were here. All it is is ice cream that is squeezed out to look like spaghetti, with a fruit sauce and white chocolate on the top to look like the cheese. It really was delicious! Brig wasn't feeling too hot at this moment, so I ended up eating a whole one by myself. Whoops! ;)
This was the last site. This is the Black Gate or Porto Negro (Quick note to my fellow lost fans, I literally just wrote the Black Rock and had to erase it. No, this is not the black rock ;) ). The black gate is another Roman structure that was the old entrance into the city. I have heard people say that it is named the black gate because of the coloring of the rock. However, I have also heard that it is named this because this is where they used to port in the slaves :( Given that the gate is probably only that color because of all of the pollution and probably didn't start out that way (similar to things in London), I assume the latter to be correct. But I don't know for sure. Sad.
And here we are on our way out!
This really was such a magical and special place. I loved everything about it. I loved everything about everything that we did this whole trip! So glad that I could share this experience with Brig and my sister and her family.
By this point Brig was kind of ready to be home. He had been away from home for over 6 weeks now and as much fun as we had, there always come a certain point where you want to be back in your own bed. I hadn't reached that point quite yet, haha. Nevertheless, we were to fly out early the next day. Did that happen? We'll just have to wait and see!...
To be continuted, even though I have pretty much left no doubt as to what happened.... ;)
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