The Search for Soccer Cleats: Amberg

The search for soccer cleats led us to Amberg yesterday, where we heard the shopping is good.  The shopping was good and the city was beautiful, of course.  We went with the Burdens again, who needed an auto parts store.  It was closed, though. We should have known, it's the weekend in Germany, lots of places are closed!

This was a building that I thought was cool. Andy and Evan liked it because there were cool lion statues in front of it.

Evan wanted to get his picture with the soccer lion.  Afterwards we walked everywhere looking for cleats.  We went into at least 5 shoe stores.

Although we had fun in all of these cool stores, especially this one with the motorcycle, we couldn't find cleats small enough for Evan.  We did, however, find a cute pair of shoes for him and a cute pair of shoes for me (obviously, I'm not going into 5 shoe stores without buying at least one pair!).

I always feel like we see the most interesting things when we explore new cities.  During this trip we saw this bike vendor.

I don't know how he rides that, I definitely don't have the balance for that!  This was a cart with food in it, mostly breads and pretzels, attached to the bike.  In Germany, they love their breads and pretzels! Andy does, too.  He said he is starting a new "all carb" diet: pretzels and beer only!

We also saw this guy who was putting on a little puppet show. We got a good laugh because the puppet was "singing" in English and Spanish.  This scary looking puppet also jumped up in Evan's lap.  Evan didn't move at all and just stared at it while everyone was cheering and clapping to the music.  Afterward though, Evan said, "I didn't like when that thing got on me."  Our friend's son, Grayson, was scared of the puppet, too.  He didn't want it getting close to him while he was trying to put a Euro in the guy's hat.

After the puppet show, we stopped for lunch.  Andy finally got to try a Doner.  It is like a wrap or a sandwich with some kind of meat and weird sauce.  That isn't a good description, but that's literally the best I can come up with, even after tasting it.  I didn't love it, but Andy, Micah, and Shannon enjoyed theirs! After lunch, we stopped to take a few pictures.

There is always great scenery for pictures.

This is a picture of St. Martin's Basilica, which I thought was so pretty.

This is one of the doors to St. Martin's Basilica.  The doors are so ornate, and I have said more than once now that I could probably create an entire door-themed blog.

In fact, here is another random door that I had to take a picture of.  Even from the picture, you can tell how beautifully carved it is.

Before we left Amberg, we stopped to take a few pictures in front of a fountain.  The boys were finishing up their delicious, melting gelato.

Evan and I always stop to strike a pose.  Well, I strike a pose.  Evan looks away as if to let everyone know he is done with my paparazzi-like antics.

We enjoyed our trip to Amberg and we will most definitely be going back to do some more shopping.  I found a home decorations store that I would like to donate a small fortune to.  After Amberg, we went home and had dinner with our neighbors and played a hilarious game of Apples to Apples.  I also got quite the intersting videos of all of them dancing trying to get the little ones to dance.  Although I would like to share those videos on this blog, I would like to remain friends with my new neighbors.  Perhaps another time!