On Saturday morning we went on a guided tour of Göttingen with our hosts, Fritz and Antje and their little boy David. I got very little out of it since it was all in German and there were ~25 people in the group and we were on noisy streets most of the time so I couldn't hear the tour guide. But Antje and Martin translated some of it for me so I can talk about some of it here.
Here's a shot of a street in Göttingen. It's quite a cute town and it has lots and lots of stores:
Here are Martin, David, and Antje on the tour (David really liked Martin):
Göttingen has a population of 130,000 and 30,000 of those people are students at the University there. So a large part of the tour was of the University. The Brothers Grimm were professors there. And the tour also included the student jail! The jail is just a bunch of little rooms with uncomfortable wooden beds in them where bad students were locked up anywhere from a few days to a few months. There were lots of drawings on the walls:
And here is a cute building that the guide talked about but I have no idea what she said:
Later that night Fritz and Antje had some friends over for dinner (meat fondue, yum). Actually most of the guests were their children! Fritz has two older children, Johanne and Ruben, and Antje has a teenage son as well, Jakob. The other guests were an older man named Martin and his son, Loren (probably not spelling that correctly). Martin (the older one) and Fritz toured the US together several times during the 80's and Fritz lived with Larry and Frankie for about a year in MA in 1986. Towards the end of the evening the slides came out and we got to look at pictures of everybody from 25 years ago. Crazy. Anyway, here are Fritz and David watching Loren play a video game:
Here is the wood stove that Martin and I plan to purchase for our future home:
And here are the two Martins:
The older Martin looks exactly the same as he did 20+ years ago except his hair is gray now.
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