St. Petri Dom and Museum, a film!

All of the activity that I noted going on around our apartment turns out to be a film that is being shot in the building next door. The boys and I hung around by the windows watching them set everything up and then sat on the wall by the river watching some more. One of the actors came by in a long-sleeved dress shirt and his boxers! The boys later saw them putting make-up on him. It was a beautiful morning to sit outside. I read a book and the boys made lunch for me and brought it out to me.

When Len came home, we all walked to the bank. It is in a very old building. I took a picture of Len by the door. After that errand, we walked over to St. Petri's Dom. Len had looked on the internet and all tours are on Wednesday. I was so disappointed because I wanted to climb up to the steeple. We went in and the first thing they asked was if we wanted to go up! (At least that's what we assume they said, they were pointing up.) It only cost 1 Euro a person. We climbed at least 267 steps. We all lost count a couple of times when we had to pass people in the very narrow staircases. When we got to the top we had a magnificent view of the surrounding area. We could easily find our apartment and the river. It saddened dus to see the entire staircase walls and the area at the top filled with graffiti. Why do people feel compelled to do that? We did not have Len's camera with us but he used mine to get several pictures. After climbing up and back down we went through the museum there. Many years ago they were going to put heat in the floors and they dug up the coffin of a bishop. You can see the concrete vault now. There were also many ancient clothes and a Bible of Martin Luther. (At least we think that's what the plaque said.)

After our self-guided tour and lots of pictures, we went shopping for chocolate. We were happy to find some made in Bremen. We detoured on the way home to get a picture of the Joey's pizza delivery vehicles. We see them delivering pizza all over town.
Now we are home again so Len can grade. I stopped at the store to buy the 3 eggs I needed for pancakes, some beverages for tonight's pizza, and some fruit and cookies for tomorrow's trip. The man in line in front of me was talking to me. When he took a breath I told him I don't speak German. "You don't speak German!?" he repeated. "Are you an American?" When I confirmed that he replied, "I can hear it! You have followed your president Obama here." I assured him that we had been here much longer than Obama (who is in Berlin today) but that we were going to Berlin tomorrow. "No, no," he said, "He is here today!" I said that I knew that but we still weren't going until tomorrow.