Yep - think your right! Somehow the cheese is all tasting the same to me right now - we have two basic kinds as well - white (non melty) and kasar (melty) - to be fair we have entire stores with many different kinds of white cheese but sometimes I just feel like screaming at the top of my lungs, "give me some gouda, cheddar, stilton, edam, something with some color!"
Enjoy that cheese!!!! I would do exactly the same thing - or plan to asap! Well haven't decided which is first the enchiladas or the cheese.
Happily only 1 day til Paris and 5 til Texas - bring on the Tex Mex!
So, today you are in Paris!! Yippee!! Hope you're having a great time!!
I craved bleu cheese- and actually found it once or twice! I make a delightful bread with a cheese mixture in the middle! YUM!!
Amen my Texas sista! Tex-Mex! 
Safe travels and blessings while you travel, trust me you'll want them. Just ask Liesa.
Good night Liesa! Think if you hadn't had people praying like crazy for y'all! 
That would have been bad, very bad I tell ya.
I can't even imagine what might have been if you all hadn't have kept us lifted up!!
Just wanted to let you gals know that I'm here and doing my darndest to catch up quickly!
Thank goodness for chapter links!! 
Kathy
I was hoping those TR links (which are actually a fair amount of work and time to keep up with) would help someone like you!
Hi Liesa, another great Nuremberg update!! I actually never looked at that fountain that well to realize what it is!!
Wow!!!
I must say that even for modern Germans like me that looks a bit weired!
The fountain is actually called fountain of the virtues. Here is what the official Nuremberg website writes about it:
In 1589, the iron caster, Benedikt Wurzelbauer, completed the Fountain of the Virtues (Tugendbrunnen), commissioned by the City Council of the Free City of the Empire who had intended to demonstrate their stature in the world. Six allegories of the three theological and the three cardinal virtues with their attributes are placed on a round platform: Faith with a cross and a chalice, Love with two children, Hope with an anchor, Courage with a lion, Moderation with a jug, and Patience with a lamb. Above the figures, cherubs carry the two coats of arms of the City of Nuremberg. The seventh virtue, Justice, stands on the top of the pillar with blindfolded eyes, a sword and a crane as a symbol of alertness.
I guess it is kind of grandfathered since it has been around for so long...
Did you notice how wrong the baby looks, she is holding? It actually looks like he has a beard!
Then I"m glad it isn't only us Americans who are sort of, I don't know, kinda weirded out about squirting ****s! Ok, here's my main beef (actually, the nursing aspect is kinda clever, if you ask me- from a fountain sort of perspective).... the baby looks WAY too old to be nursing (although, I did nurse Anara until she was 2 1/2), and secondly, the baby is grabbing his mother! Also, like Tim says, the mother is NOT very feminine. Having said that, I do know that beauty was expressed in many ways and forms throughout the ages/years. Perhaps when this one was sculpted, ladies were more masculine looking??
Ok, then so here's my question?? Is the lion peeing for his fountian part?? I didn't walk all the way around the fountain to ascertain...
And I never found the time to reply on Anara sitting on the rabbit: I wasn't shocked by the fact that she was sitting on A statue (that's not a no go here in Germany, don't worry!) but on THAT statue. It is the worm eaten rabbit that I posted once before. I tried to find a good picture to post, but couldn't find one... So I was shocked that she was sitting on this really disgusting animal!
Phew!!!!!!!! I was so glad that we didn't commit a felony while in the City of Artisans!!! I was worried that we had made a serious social faux pas, and that we even made it public here!!
That is the another of Nuremberg's ODD statues for sure!! Its eyes were bulging out; ok, it was just ugly. Can I be frank here?? What a line up!! First a naked woman in chains, then the rabbit of freakishish, then the nursing gone nuts!
BTW - while searching for a picture, I found
this website with panoramic pictures of Nuremberg which are really wonderful!
I actually have a couple more pictures from Mike's castle shots that I forgot to post/just found that are quite panoramic of the city. But for the sake of moving this TR along, I'll spare you all, and let folks hit the link if they want to. I did, and you're right, they are all wonderful photos of the places around town.
What a..um..interesting fountain there, Liesa.
Well, despite what everyone says about Glenn's comment- I"m all for being real around here. Obviously the fountain was meant to evoke a thought provoking emotional response, and it's certainly done its job here! I mean REALLY!!! What was this artist thinking??!!! It's ALL about breast-feeding- which according to the quote that Magdalene posted is a virtue associated with motherhood.
Being embarrased in public certainly is part of THAT job!
