Germany!

I started off my European adventures in Frankfurt, Germany with my lovely friend Christina.  She’s a really good friend from high school who just so happens to be German and live outside of Frankfurt… I stayed with her and her family, which was really cool. I absolutely love her mom and sister- just such good people!  I got to experience real life Germany- I pretty much had no idea what was going on for the majority of the time, but started to catch on a little to some things. For instance, I can say important things like kitchen and cheese and beer… Which, speaking of- they mix hefeweizen with banana juice there, or hef with grapefruit juice... umm, delightful.  Highly recommended.  But yeah, so… we went to Heidelberg one day, which was so cool.  It’s a very, very cute town with a castle that’s pretty tight… And they happen to have a US military base there- I was happy to see some of our guys on the street because it made me feel safe haha  

Me at the castle in Heidelberg

 Let’s see… I met some of Christina’s friends, which was cool because I had only heard of them and never actually had met them.  One, Franzi, is totally awesome- she studied in the US at the same time that Christina did, so she’s super fluent in English and helped keep me company when everyone was speaking German.  One thing we did that was pretty cool that you wouldn't ever see in the U.S.-- we went to this like Wagner symphony performance that lasted an hour, but was followed by Wagner-inspired electro-club music at a man-made beach in the middle of the city, complete with sand and a beer garden.  Probably the strangest thing I have ever seen, but so cool too haha



These are beach chairs at the Wagner-techno beach party... haha



Basically, I got to spend a lot of time with Christina in Germany, which was awesome- I love that girl.  I’m going to try and go visit her in Berlin soon too, which should be fun!