Germany day one

So we actually made it here! The flight was really long, and was overnight, so we tried to sleep as best we could. We bought some of those neck pillows, and they are lifesavers!

After arriving, we got our rental car, a Mercedes! It seemed really cool at the time, until I realized that most of the cars over here are either a BMW or Mercedes, so it's really like having a Ford rental car. It has a navigations system built into the dashboard, but it really sucks. It took us forever to figure out how to enter a location that we wanted to find. We wanted to do some sightseeing in Frankfurt, but we didn't know where to go. I though the GPS system would have tourist info programmed into it, but it mainly just asks us what road we want. So after some aimless wandering, we decided to check into the hotel.

When we entered our room, it seemed so small! That is a recurring theme over here. Small. The cars are tiny, and the roads are very narrow. We found that our room had two twin beds, so Ben went to the front desk to ask for a king size bed. Yup, even the beds here are small because they don't have a room with anything bigger than a full size bed. We kept our room and just pushed the two beds together. They also don't use sheets here. Just a mattress cover and a duvet. It's weird not to sleep between sheets!

After a much needed jet-lag recovery nap, we decided to go and get some dinner. We went to the Marketplatz. It is an area with lots of shops, restaurants and businesses. Mostly it is just for foot traffic only. We found an Argentine steak house that looked and smelled good. It was interesting to try to talk to the waitress, who spoke just a little english. I am getting really good at the phrase: "Sprechen zie English." Most people do speak enought to be helpful. Everyone we have encountered was very helpful. Hopefully day two turns out just as well.