July 28, 2005

• Shall I try this again!  I wouldn’t have got so mad except it takes forever to upload pictures and then to see it all go poof is just maddening.

  
  

  So last Sat we went to Nuremburg to look at the VW bugs.  I was surprised there weren’t more newer tricked out cars, almost all of them were older.  But most always in pristine condition. 

  
  

  The blue bug was my faorite.  The picture just doesn’t do it justice.  It was perfect inside and out.  In the background you can see part of the Zeppelin Grandstand.  More on that a little later.  Funny how they are all intently looking in the trunk.  I wonder if I missed the plans to dispose of someone? Ha!

  
  

   

  
  

  I though Herbie was off in Hollywood making movies.  Guess I was wrong, because here he is in Germany with another American friend.

  
  

   

  
  

  Now you know your tiny when a bug looks large by comparision.  The guy that got out of this car unfolded himself.  That’s the only way to describe it.  He had to have had his knees under his chin.  This car makes a mini and a bug look big.  That’s Mike, Wes and Bear trying to figure out how they would get in and out if it belonged to them. 

  
  

   

  
  

  I have never seen a three eyed bug.  With eyelids no less.  We found out it used to be a rally racer and the third headlight is for visibility in the middle of nowhere, isn’t that where all rally races are held?  It was the only one out of about 500 that had three headlights.

  
  

  I took this one pretty early in the day.  The stadium did have a huge back on it with a   giant swastika.  American troops blew it up in 1945.  In 1969 the Germans had to blow up  a big part of the building that stood at the far end of the field for safety reasons.  As you can see it’s a race track now.  They also hold concerts in the grassy areas.  Teenagers skateboard all over it and on the day we were here there was a circus setting up in the grass behind the bug show.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Me and Mike standing where “you know who” gave some of his speeches.  Back in the day there was no railing.  Notice were both wearing coats in July.  The temp didn’t get above 63 until late in the afternoon.  If the sun had stayed out and the wind had quit blowing it wouldn’t have been so cold.  We did end up taking them off later in the day.  It’s weird for this Southern girl to be wearing a coat in summer.  It just seems wrong.

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  This is probably my favorite shot of the day.  Porta Potties!  There we are standing where Hitler stood and getting all kinds of weird vibes from it and you look down and see all these porta potties.  My how things have changed.

  
  

   

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