Today we layed out a plan to take the boat ride which travels the canals that encircle the medieval city center. We got to the kiosk selling tickets about 30 minutes after they opened and were confronted with a prodigious line waiting to buy tickets, this was even more lengthy than the lines for the canal boats in Brugge, but since we already pre-paid we were determined to see it through. So I got in line while Deb and Elizabeth took a little paseo around the area to look at shop windows. Elizabeth returned to hold our place and I took off to look around. While looking I noticed that there were two lines, and that the long line in which were currently standing was only for people that were buying tickets with a charge card, so I jumped into the significantly shorted second line and managed to get Elizabeths attention and have here join me in this line. Shortly after one of the workers noticed the situation and got everybody with prepaid tickets into our line, the result was that we jumped queue by about 100 people and saved at least half and hour in line. Difficult to take photos out of the covered boat so little photography, but this is absolutely a trip worth taking. They take you around the center but also up to the North to the area of the European Parliament which is all modern very clean architecture, very beautiful in its own right.
We had a late lunch of Flammekuche, which is a sort of Alsatian thin crust pizza-like dish. It was late enough that it became lupper (i.e.lunch and supper)
We ended the day with a visit to the museum and art/decorative arts which had many beautiful rooms and artifacts related to the prince-bishops Rohan of Strasbourg. Once again an example of why the French Revolution occurred. 
Elizabeth and I stopped for a evening sip of beer for me and wine for her on the way back to the hotel. It turned into a wonderful comedic experience for us as watched a street corner which we dubbed the corner of indecision. A car would drive up to the corner, a T junction, and start to turn one direction then suddenly stop and ponder. Then either continue on or back up and turn the other direction only to be seen a few minutes later returning and going in the direction they originally pointed to the first time. Then maybe 5 minutes later we would see them again, and again. One woman went through at least 6 times in the time we were there and she was by no means the only one making the circuit just the most persistent. Seems to be a bit of an issue with parking spaces in Strasbourg center.
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