Saturday at the Schafhof

The Anglican Church Dating Back to the 1400s

Outside of the Anglican Church

Nina and I in the Arena at the Schafhof

The Main Cobblestone Street in Kronberg in the Christmas Market

The Old Town Hall Built in the Early 1500s After the Church was Built

Today was amazing! I went to the barn and road Nina earlier this morning. She was super and Tom was really happy with how things are going. Tomorrow we are going to start working a little harder, and then Monday give Nina a light day before heading to the YR World Cup in Frankfurt on Tuesday!!!!! :) SO excited!!! After the ride today my coach Tom, myself, and my mom and dad all went to the Christmas Market in Kronberg. It was unbelievable! So much delicious german food. I think we all had a couple glasses of "gluhwein" which is warm wine with spices. You add things like oranges and spices to the wine, and let it all sit for a couple of hours or days, and then you warm it up and drink it. SOOOO GOOD!!! They had red, white, and apple gluhwein. We returned after handwalking Nina in the early afternoon to eat dinner in the Christmas Market. We had things like this amazing Roasted Chestnut soup (which had bacon and potato), bratwursts, my dad had pickled herring on a bun, and these AMAZING cookies from this cookie place. You have NEVER had a cookie this good before. One of the types of cookies we got had almonds covering shortbread cookies covered in this delicious white chocolate - it was sooo good!

The Christmas Market is held in the tiny streets of Kronberg set amongst the houses and shops that date back to the 14 and 1500s!!!! We walked around the town a little bit in the afternoon and followed the old wall that used to enclose the town of Kronberg. We went in to the 2 churches in the town, which dated back to the 1400s, and had an amazing time walking around. The bells from the two churches were ringing on the hour while we were there and sounded so pretty chiming together. They could be heard all throughout the town. We followed a road called "horse road" in german, which is the old cobblestone road that wound its way through the town to the watering troughs in the 14 and 1500s. People would bring their horses down this road to give them water.

Tomorrow I am up early again to head to the barn and ride in the morning. So far the time change hasn't affected me at all and Nina seems to be adapting really really well as well. She is loving her stay in her new palace. She is the princess of the barn back home so she seems to be adjusting just fine to her new home on Ann Kathrin's estate. I wonder if we will be able to drag her back home!!!!