Christmas Markets - Lindau

This past Saturday we went to the Lindau Christmas market.  We had hoped to go skiing, but there were no lessons on Saturday and I'm not quite ready to throw myself down the Alps without any training.  :)  Lindau was a very nice Christmas market!  It was the biggest one we had seen and had some different things that we hadn't seen at the other ones yet.

Before we made it to the market, we had to take some pictures of the mountains because they were gorgeous!

We loved this last picture the best because it looks like there is a big floating mountain in the distance. 

Once we made it to the market, we loved the entrance.  It was definitely the most elaborate one we had seen.

Brian liked the center of the market where they had pedal tractors for kids to ride in a little area.  Too bad he is too big to ride them!

The market had lots of interesting things to see.  One of my favorites was a booth with things made out of tree stumps.  They were carved out, but the bark was still on the outside.  There was also a boat that you could go on and order food, but we stayed in the regular market and had lunch there.

There was no Nativity at this market, but they still had animals!  This time it was goats.

They did have an area that I thought was pretty creepy.  It was made from evergreen branches draped over wood to make a place that you could walk into.  Inside, there were displays of different animals, but they were all stuffed (like taxidermy).  There were signs by them all, but we couldn't read them because they were in German.  There were also other displays with characters from different fairy tales.  I thought these were pretty creepy too, but Brian still took pictures of them.

After having lunch and stopping at a store in the town, we headed back to our car, but had to take some more pictures of the mountains on our way out!