Last Day Germany

This morning Erich had his tooth come out, and we started our walk around the city's wall. The wall goes all the way around the town, except the part that got bombed. The view of the town can be seen from the wall, and you can see the new parts of town and the old parts of town. On part of the wall you can see plaques with peoples' names on it. You can buy 1m-20m of the wall for 1000 Euros per meter. If you buy part of the wall then you will get your name and any other location you choose on a plaque. Then we went to the torture museum, where they had shame masks, an iron mask that people were forced to wear if they gossiped, cheated, or other reasons. There were so many other fascinating items, too many to describe here. Then we found a German outlet mall that had a Steiff stuffed animal store. Emma left with a swan, a dachshund and one tiny white mouse. There is also a photo of the town of Rothenberg from the wall, and one of our hotel lobby. Well tomorrow we are back home, see everyone soon. Ciao

Rothenburg Night Watchman

Last night we went on the night tour with a guy who dressed up as a night watchman and gave us a tour of the city. There were five night watchmen in the olden days who guard the five towers throughout the town. There is a huge wall surrounding the whole city and the city is on top of a steep hill so the city remained un-concured for around 500 years. There was one point that they were taken over by a troop of 30,000 and there were only 6,000 villagers. The ransacking took half of their riches, which they gained by selling textiles. This was a very wealthy town before this attack. The form of currency back in those days was salt. Then the town sat for about 250 years doing very little. Then in the late 1800's people started visiting and that is still how it makes its money. The houses are really well preserved it really amazing. Emma's tooth had been wiggling for a while now, and she wanted it out tonight. During the tour she kept wiggling her tooth. Once we got to the hotel she stayed up later than everyone and started a tooth extraction. In the morning her tooth was gone, but you could still see pieces of gum hanging down from her gums.