A European Christmas Market in St. Paul

 St. Paul, MN

Warming Up

St. Paul European Christmas Market

Today we rode The Green Line to Union Depot to visit our first European Style Christmas Market, The St. Paul European Christmas Market.  We had heard about markets like this in the area and really wanted to go to one.  I have watched a few YouTube videos of Real European Christmas Markets and they looked awesome!

Our ride on The Green Line was easy and soon we were walking around the outdoor Christmas Market.  It was in the low single digits Fahrenheit so it was really cold, for us.

We decorated the day after Thanksgiving. The tree smells really great.

Feels like -10!!!!

Francis has been making full use of his blanket pile recently.  He also has a heated bed.

Donna activated the heater at our local bus shelter while we waited for the bus to take us to The Green Line.

There is also a heater at The Light Rail Station.

The market was hopping with hearty people that didn't care that it felt like -10.

There were festive gifts available for purchase as well as festive food.  We were there for the food, but I was also on the lookout for a warmer hat.

Our first food stop was to buy a Curry Wurst.

It was delicious.

I don't know who Metzgerei is but Deutschland Meats doesn't seem to like them.

Our snack total included the Curry Wurst you saw, Perogies, and Fruit Hand Pies (like Hostess Pies but way better).

After about 45 minutes we were so cold we needed to warm up.  There were 2 warming huts that sold Glühwein, which is a warm mulled wine, and beer.  We opted for the beer because the mulled wine came with a commemorative mug that you had to purchase. 

The warming hut was packed so we didn't get as warm as we wanted so we decided to walk to one of the local breweries to warm up.  Gambit Brewing was about .2 miles away.

Another reason we chose Gambit is because they had 2 pinball tables.  There was an abandoned game on Venom so we played that and then noticed that games were $2 each so we passed.

We bought a tiny amount of pistachios for 75 cents.

The brewery was heavily decorated for Christmas.  It was a nice place to have a beer.

That was our adventure for today.  If you missed, Unexpected Factory Snow, check it out.  We got a surprise dusting of snow caused by an interesting phenomena.