Christkindlmarkt SLC

A few weekends ago we decided to take a little trip down to the This is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake for their first annual Christkindlmarkt--a traditional outdoor German Christmas market.  

Most of the booths were handmade-ish sort of crafts from local sellers aka. not authentic German booths...but the spirit of having local craftsmen was the same. But there were a few German booths, like the awesome clock seller, as well as the booth for a local German bakery--where we bought this AWESOME bread!  

I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it's amazing--full of nuts, raisins and honey and covered with powdered sugar....mmmmm. I need to figure out how to make this! 

The booth owner was really nice too--she was smitten with Nikolai and gave him this little santa sucker.

And then when we bought the bread, she went to put it in a sack and then started piling all this other stuff in there too (for free)! 

There's German cough drops, raspberry candies, and a fresh blueberry scone.  Mmmmm! We will definitely be making a visit to the bakery's physical location sometime soon :)

In addition to the booths, they also had live music.  While we were there they had Salt Lake's local German choir, as well as some Alpenhorns! It was really neat and added nicely to the festive German atmosphere. 

And lastly, a terrible DIY family photo from the occasion, because that's how we roll:

All in all, it was a really fun afternoon, and if we were going to be here next year we'd definitely go again! So since we can't go, those of you that live in the area should go for us, ok? Thanks! ;)