Wittlich Pig Festival

Last weekend we went to the Wittlich Pig Festival. It's held every year in the village of Wittlich in Germany. 

According to a legend, the town of Wittlich was a walled fortress. One night the guard lost the pin to secure the gate to the city. When he couldn't find it, he locked the door with a carrot. During the night a pig came along and ate the carrot, the gate opened and an army came in and ransacked the city. The angry townspeople herded together the pigs and roasted them. Since then, the town of Wittlich has been known as the town of the pig burners and every year they have a festival. 

Ariana wasn't so sure about seeing a whole pig being roasted over the spit. 

While we were waiting in line for our pork sandwiches we enjoyed the live band on stage in the marktplatz.

 Our tickets for our sandwiches and Ariana and Daddy waiting in line. She wasn't thrilled about waiting.

Finally our delicious sandwiches with amazing German mustard! Eating under a tent with pretty lights and glass bottles of coke, yum!

We stumbled upon a street performer who was making giant bubbles and he called Ariana up to help. She did a great job until she saw how big the bubbles were getting and then she just wanted to chase them around and pop them!

Enjoying riding the carnival rides!

Our little animal lover, adored the pony ride!

Nutella and strawberry crepes for Mommy and Daddy and cotton candy for Ariana.

More fun rides. Bumper cars are her favorite!

With her prizes. Play makeup and a punkrocker mohawk wig. 

I also hit my 37 week mark that day. It was such a fun day and such a great carnival especially great for kids with lots of games and rides! The food was yummy too! Love those pig burners!

Das Praehistorium

Over the winter break we went to visit Das Praehistorium about 40 minutes away here in Germany. It was a very impressive museum and even though everything was in German of course, they offered headsets in English. There were lots of robotic dinosaurs and information as well as fossils. Ariana loves dinosaurs and even though most of it was over her head, she still really enjoyed the outing.

 The giant puzzle was a hit since we like doing puzzles.

The flood room was my favorite. There was calm and peaceful and then a storm started building and their was lightening and mist in the air and then suddenly water comes pouring down the valley.

Ariana wasn't much of a fan of the T-rex eating another dinosaur but in general she loved the robotic dinosaurs, they were pretty lifelike and did a lot of moving, breathing, and noises. 

They also had a movie about evolution and a 3-d movie about dinosaurs. We thought it was all put together very well.

If you want to go there yourself, you can check out the website here. We would definitely go again and there is also an indoor gym area for kids to play in another part of the building.