Hansa Sail

It's sunny.  It's above sixty degrees.  It's time for the Hansa Sail!

This is a big ol' deal here where hundreds of historic sailing ships, steam boats, paddle boats, and every-kind-of-boat makes its way to our harbor, just four blocks away, for four days of nautical celebration.  We have sea shanties, we have pirates, we have a lot of people with sailor hats walkin' around.  There are techno party boats and dinner cruises and sea plane rides and dragonboat races.

Wanna put on one of those old metal diving helmets?  Sure thing!  Wanna eat some calamari and then go on the bumper cars?  Go for it (but not recommended)!

It's just a big, big, really fun deal.

AND I tried my first Bubble Tea, which I've been meaning to do for years.  Strawberry with passionfruit bubbles--amaaaazing.  

Then being able to just walk home to our altstadt neighborhood and see our Petrikirche waiting for us...we're lucky folks, I think.  

Just such a great festival.  I'm really proud of this little city we live in and its seafaring history.

And yeah, these are all our pictures.  Go super old handheld camera!