Colmar, France

After the chocolate museum, we took to the beautiful streets of Colmar to explore everything around us.

The church was right next to the chocolate museum so we started there.  It was a gorgeous church.

Then we started exploring the rest of the town.  Everything was decorated for Christmas which made this cute little village extra magical.

We wandered for a while then made it to our boat tour through "Little Venice" (the canals of Colmar)

The road to get to the docks was blocked by construction so we had to frantically run all the way around the city to find another route to the docks making us 4 minutes late for our boat ride.  The guy flat out refused to let us go for being late & let a whole boat of 15 people without tickets get on our boat instead.  We were SO MAD.

We begged & begged to figure out a way for us to continue to go on a boat tour & there was a sweet English speaking tour guide who happened to be there taking his girlfriend & family on a tour that decided to let us jump on his boat & show us the sights from the canals.  We were SO grateful to him.  He was a VERY good guide too.  He told lots of jokes, laughed, & explained the history.  It was a wonderful boat ride.

I laughed when we saw this tunnel.  There was no way they'd take us under that!  It was too low.  I was wrong.  "Everybody DUCK!"  Holy moly I thought we were all going to die in there.

After the boat tour, we walked around the city a little more.

Finally the kids were done.  They wanted to go back to the hotel to play more games.  We ordered pizza for them & got them all set up for a nice evening.

Then the grown ups snuck out for a nice French dinner in the city.

I had Chicken & kasespaetzle which was to die for.

The next morning we said goodbye to Colmar & our wonderful little weekend getaway with our friends.

On our way out we passed the famous Statue of Liberty.  The man who designed it was from Colmar, France so there is a mini statue in the center of one of the round abouts in the city.  It was fun passing it.

The only thing we bought (other than a ton of amazing food & cookies) was this cute house modeled after one of the main houses in Colmar.  We added it to my Christmas village to help us always remember our trip to Colmar.