As I said, we stayed in Chemnitz, or the village nearby, for 4 nights.  Reminds me of Chilliwack, the village that is, since the house borders on farmland.  I am sure you can imagine what I mean.

This is in the middle of Chemnitz, a church.  In front of us stands an old museum.

This being a former DDR city, they had to have their central broad avenues with large buildings (~5-10 stories) lining it.  This here is a monument to Karl Marx, if you can read the inscription it says: "Working men of all countries Unite"

This is around Chemnitz, a castle on top of a hill.  They have a type of sled slide on one side of the hill, where one sits in this sled with a brake and you follow the winding slide down the hill.  They give warnings to break at every corner, although I figured that I didn't need to do that, until I hit the 3rd corner and banged my arm on the slide because I thought me and my sled would fly off.  I braked a little after that.

Oh, the people in the picture are from left, Jenny, Romy, Nadine and Jenz (sorry I spelt your name completely wrong Jenz)  

Going for the photo-op of Nadine.

more photo ops.

Trying to catch a glimpse of the surrounding land.

This is a Lada.  Cars in eastern germany were hard to come by, and so you had to be a member in good standing and still wait.  This is a better car than the typical east german car and the man had to wait 15 years for it.  No joke.

This is Romy's house.  Beautiful place.

Just to point out German efficiency and use.  Take a look at the twigs that they still pile on and use as firewood.  I think in Canada, most of the wood here would just be left as "useless little wood chips" ;-)

The three girlfriends who met in England a couple of years ago.

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