Ahhh Strasbourg. Great weekend excursion. This is Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Strasbourg, a beautiful architectural marvel that spans over 700 years of construction. The French aren't usually hard-pressed on finishing cathedrals, or anything for that matter...
Beautiful shot of the stained-glass windows.
This is a building in the famous French quarter of Strasbourg. This particular building was the center of the Tanner's Guild and now is a haughty restaurant not suitable for the HCJYF's budget. INSTEAD, we go to this restaurant which had a strange mixture of musical instruments and pictures of women in compromising positions with sausage.
This image was on EVERY SINGLE PLATE. ughhhh. Hey, at least she's sporting the traditional headdress of the Alsace-Lorraine area! I had to give her at least a few points for that, even though she was actually straddling the EXACT meal that was next presented to me. 
Voila! My meal for the night. Choucroute garnie (literally meaning dressed sauerkraut) : a very traditional meal here. It includes mysterious slabs of meat, meat, meat, sausage, sausage, and two random potatoes (need that starch!) all over a HUGE heaping steaming helping of sauerkraut. *shiver*. Sausage girl? Yup, right under there. You can just pick out her silhouette under the kraut juice...blachhhh. To say 'it was not one of the greatest meals ever' would be a vast understatement. Actually, Allie's expressive face best explains the overall sentiment of the night. She went for the maybe-heaps-of-French-mustard-will-save-this-dish approach. Don't think that helped too much. Dashelle, however, looks thoroughly amused.
Other than the horrific dinner, Strasbourg was, in fact, a beautiful city: rich in culture and history.
I would love to come back here, maybe when I am rich and successful and I can afford to shell out for a meal that doesn't include sausage girls.
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