Day 3 Mini Beer Fest

Today we recovered from our lack of sleep by waking up at 2pm. We took in the sights, a giant David and Goliath painting on a wall and the quaint buildings and surrounding parks. We noticed many old couples nestled on Park benches and spent close to two hours trying to translate things in the grocery store. Conditioner is "spuling" in German and apparently straighteners are not sold everywhere.

We joined our host after getting lost and walking past her door numerous times on our way home. we attended the fair again, met her boyfriend and friends and got a giant beer with Sprite. I got a delicious savory crepe and we sat in the beer-garden. One of the girls explained that the dresses some of the girls were wearing were to colorful and short, she was a staunch Bavarian and thought this a sin. She was very outgoing and funny and showed us the section of the tent where you could stand on the tables and sing and dance. They ended the night with "Country Road" and it began to thunder, we dashed home in the storm.

Day 2 Regensburg

Got to Frankfurt at 9:30am. I was unable to configure my international sim card, unable to find free wifi and travel buddy but finally tried American sim card and was able to establish we were both at different McDonalds in different terminals.

We joyously reunited and got our Bahn passes sorted, we hopped on a random train and ended up at Frankfurt central. We walked around and got side tracked by a fake tower, and lost some sense of direction, we almost missed our train, but with with five minutes to spare we jaywalked our way back into the station, hauled our luggage from the lockers and literally threw our 50 pound bags onto the train a minute before departure. It was an amazing race moment...

We attempted to nap, switched trains and saw many beautiful quaint triangular roofed houses with greens meadows and yellow flowers. We made it to Regensburg and my German Buddy was able to find us. We yet again lugged our luggage up a flight of antique stairs and after releasing our load walked around the city. Many beautiful churches could be seen and we came across a Bavarian Fair. They had cute cookies with messages on them for sweat hearts and the biggest pretzels I have ever seen! Many of the locals even had traditional outfits on as they enjoyed the festivities. Our feet hurt, but after a warm shower and brief communications via skype with the parentals we relaxed and finally after not sleeping for close to 48 hours went to bed...

Day 1 The Flight to Frankfurt

My wonderful friends came over last night to wish me hi and bye. I have known them since high-school and catching up over smores was quite a treat. One of them even brought his new girlfriend, olala.
I got to bed around 2 am, and then was woken up at 4:45 by my father and dragged myself into the shower. My mum made me a strong cup of coffee, I made it quickly through security was on a wonderfully empty flight to Philly and now I have about seven hours to kill and cannot leave the airport. I have already spilled tomato cheddar soup on my pants..yay..only another 10 something hours of wearing them. (Bon au Pan, had it first in New York, delicious and good value)

Pre-Departure

Its Wednesday afternoon, mum just made a delicious chicken wrap. I have just returned from Gainesville. My travel buddy has had a mini panic attack, I hope I have brought all essentials from Gville! My cat has sprawled across my lap and typing on my netbook is quite challenging. I am leaving for Frankfurt on Sunday,
let the preparations begin.