Germany Pictures thus far

You need facebook to see them unfortunately, but we will try to post some on here or figure out another way soon... time for us to get into downtown Berlin!

Hildesheime

Well we made it to Liv's parents house in a small german town called Bad Salzdetfurth, near Hildesheim. It was an adventure in itself just getting here, as our first trip on a train was in the wrong direction. Long story short, we asked the information desk which train will take us to Hildesheime, and the lady told us to take a train which took us to the wrong side of town so we had to come back and ended up being an hour late to meet Susanne. Then on the train to Hildesheim there were no seats...so we stood in whatever open spaces we could find for the 2 hour ride. It did end up working out because there was a german dude about our age that spoke good english and happened to be standing in the same corner on his way to Berlin. He gave us tips on Berlin and other parts of Europe that we will be traveling, and he was just fun to BS with about sites we were passing by in the countryside. Susanne, her husband George, and son Leonard have been extremely nice. They say their house is around 130 years old! The ceilings are very short...which is ok for Christa...but I have a big lump on my head from hitting the ceiling and tops of doorways a couple times. They have treated us to a couple of meals at their home, mostly consisting of bread, cheese, and different types of sliced meat...George had me try cow toungue last night, it wasn't bad. Susanne took us to school this morning as guest English speakers. We were asked lots of questions like 'are you afraid of spiders' and 'do you have a dog'. The kids were fun and taught us a few german words, did a lot of giggling, and asked for our autographs at the end of class...so we have been granted VIP status at the local elementary school. The plan for today is to go and visit the nearby castle, maybe go and see the old churches in town...which still have burn markings from bombings in world war 2...and then Leonard is going to take us out with his friends to have his version of 'fun'.

Frankfurt was fun, even though we spent half the day adjusting to the time and shaking off the jet lag. We ended up just walking around, getting lost, people watching, and basically doing everything we could to make sure everyone knew we were american tourists...we might as well have had a sign. We tried Frankfurt's famous apple wine. After a nap we went out to see a little bit of the night life and ended up meeting a US soldier on leave. It was his second night in Frankfurt so he showed us around a little and gave us pieces of advice from locals he had met the night before. He had a little different version of a good time, as he insisted the night was just beginning when we decided to head back to the hotel at 3 in the morning. That is pretty much the story up to now. We will probably be heading to Berlin tomorrow sometime and head to stockholm monday night. Try to update when we get to stockholm or something like that. I am going to try to make buiscuits and gravy for our hosts tomorrow so we will see how that goes.

Made it across the Atlantic

Hey all, after a very long flight on the largest airplane we had ever seen (and maybe 2 or 3 hours of sleep total) we made it to Frankfurt this am and spent all day walking around. Perfect out, high 50s and partly sunny. Crashing soon though, our bodies feel like we just pulled an all nighter! Tomorrow= Hildesheim!

Night Before: Josh SHAVES!!

YaYa let us use her place to stay the night and through a hilarious process, we got the beard off Josh :)

We will try to use links to all the photos instead of right on here, but can't now- sorry no complete after photos but promise it is MUCH better :) 

About to Leave!

Hi all,
I hope we can keep this up throughout the trip and possibly add pictures at times! We take off from the Portland Airport at 8:30 Tuesday morning and will arrive in Frankfurt, Germany at 7:50am their time on Wednesday. Most of Europe where we will be is 9 hours ahead of Oregon. Once we figure out Frankfurt a little the first day, we might find Internet! :)

FYI: If you check out "my profile" you will see a Blog labeled TED 610 which is only a hypothetical one I made for school last fall and did not take the time to hide/ erase it, so no worries about it!