Melharris: Scenes from Germany... Day 1

We landed about 7:30am, Frankfurt time. (Keep in mind, that was 12:30am TX time) SO glad we "slept" on the flight. We got to catch Social Network, the movie, on the plane... good distraction, and not a bad movie. We walked what seemed to be forever in the Frankfurt airport to get our rental car... and thank goodness for NAV, we programmed Bonn into it, after I reprogrammed it to ENGLISH, while Mike drove. We followed her half the way, but decided we wanted a little more adventure, so took a detour, and we're so glad we did! We took a smaller highway, (9) along the Rhine, and got to drive thru several small towns and by several churches and castles along the way!

One thing that I did forget was my leather gloves, so when spying what I identified as an Outlet Mall (yeah!) we stopped for a bit, got a snack, (what was translated to be mixed sausage- sheep, pig, cow... 5 links, and quite yummy) a diet coke, and a pair of gloves... we were back on our way.

Once checked in to our hotel, we walked the marketplace area. WHAT a great sunny day. SOooooo glad we brought that TEXAS sun with us! They seemed to like it, and people were out in droves! I don't care how much sun, it was still 25 degrees... and BBBBrrrrrrr. We found a few shops to duck into and browse, just to warm up!

We found a cute little place in the main square! An area that has a webcam that I've been spying on for about 2 weeks. We took our picture in that same spot, and ate at the cafe right there! We don't know what it was, but it was yummy... OF COURSE I took pics, it's FOOD!

It's now 5:16, but we are exhausted, so we're back to the room, showered, and Mike is OUT!!! Couldn't keep him up any longer. ME... gotta get these pics up, for those of you living vicarously thru our travels... ;) You know who you are!

More later!!! Stay tuned! Now for some pics... Excuse the mess of the order. I promise to do better!

I drank 3 of these full of water on the one flight! Wow, it really dries you out.