Beautiful Germany

I'm still in Germany. My family lives right in the heart of a city, but we've gone out and seen many country sides which are SOOO beautiful! Everyone has old cute houses with red roofs. Many houses (at least in the North) have half timber houses. The leaves are just starting to change color which makes it even more schon (beautiful in german)

Hildesheim

We rented a car and drove down to this town called hildesheim (don't worry, they drive on the right side of the road here) We drove through some nice country side to get here. This town is known for it's beautiful old churches. This first one is called Andreas Kirche. It was built in the 1500's. Inside it had some beautiful ceelings, and candles that you could light etc.

This church was called Michales Kirche. It was built in 1000. It had been bombed out in the WWII (as had most of the churches) and it has been partially restored. It was old and beautiful, and it had an abby connected onto the back.

It's cool how there is soo much history here in this country. Every where you go there are so many old and cool buildings, churches, cathedrals, palaces, statues, buildings and castles. Tomorrow we are leaving to southern germany so see a bunch of the castles.

Hannover- Konigliche Garten

I'm in germany visiting my family (in Hannover) one of the popular sights here is this garden. they have lots of different little theme gardens. This one was the germany theme garden.

This is an overview of the garden that is at the entrance of the whole thing. They had lots of little hedges, and tons of statues that were greed gods and godesses.

For some reason this little statue was one of my favorite things in the gardens. He was in the "island garden" there was a little mote built around the garden that included this statue.

These gardens were really pretty. They have the tallest water fountain in germany, and also had lots of swans and things. On weekends they have fire work shows with different country themes. It was really pretty...