FRANKFURT: Home of the Frankfurter.

Hello again.

I am trying my best to catch up on blogging because I am still so behind, but I have 3 cities more to go before I'm caught up. So here we go. We only spent a day in Frankfurt before jetting off to Berlin, but it was fabulous! We got on our plane to London, but actually while we were at the airport, we ran into another girl in our sorority who is studying abroad in East Anglia, England. THIS WORLD IS WAY TOO SMALL!

TIME OUT--I FORGOT ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF PARIS!
When we were in Paris, I was standing outside of a random souvenir shop when all of a sudden I hear.. "KELLY ROJEK???" I look up and see Marley Leitner, a girl from my high school, walking toward me. She is studying abroad in another city in London and happened to be in Paris at the same time. Audrey and Karrah rolled their eyes at me, because of course, I would see someone that I know in another city on another continent. Funny times.

ANYWAY, we got on our plane (Ryanair..sucked), and made it to Frankfurt in no time, but unable to yet again understand the language. Luckily, a lot of people do speak English in Germany, so it wasn't hard to figure out how to get a bus back to the town of Frankfurt, where Audrey's aunt, uncle, and cousin were going to pick us up! The bus ride was only about an hour, and it was a pretty view on the way there. We made it to the stop, and Audrey's family was there waiting for us! They took us back to their house, where we were able to have the comfort of staying in a home again. You kind of forget what it's like to be in a comfortable place where you don't have to worry about all of your stuff getting stolen or waking people up. It was so nice. We all ate lunch together, which was delicious, and I discovered the BEST German bread I've ever tasted. After, we all hopped in their car and went for a drive along the Rhine River up into a couple nearby towns, to go see them and to go up to some castles!

Coast of the Rhine River

 I must say, even though my pictures aren't the best (it was kind of a cloudy day), the coast of the Rhine River and the cities around it were EXACTLY what I picked Germany to look like. It was just so.. GERMAN like. I don't even know how to describe it. It was very pretty, very very pretty. We took a ferry to the other side of the river (my first ferry ride, might I add. At least to my knowledge!) and we drove around on the other side of the river. We went up to a few castles, which had awesome views of the cities and the Rhine River.

You know, a castle in Germany

The castles were gorgeous and the views were beautiful as well.

After we drove around, we went back down to actual Frankfurt to go to a typical Germany restaurant with some German food. For some reason, I was dead set on eating a Frankfurter in Frankfurt. Perhaps because this is where they originate. Unfortunately, I didn't try one, but I did have some awesome German food. It was a crazy German restaurant, but so cool. They were famous for their apple wine, which was very interesting tasting but very good. It was not very sweet, but I was expecting it to be. It was rather carbonated. But here is what I ate..

Ummmm yeah haha, a huge plate of sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, and some pork thing and sausages. I couldn't even finish a quarter of this or I would have exploded. It was delicious! I don't think I could handle eating like that all the time, however, but it was really good. After, we walked around the town of Frankfurt for a bit, and saw the new more modern area with stores, and the older area, which is the home to a HUGE market at Christmas. Just looking at it made me think that it was Christmas.

Sorry my picture is not of the highest quality, it is hard to get my camera to focus without using a flash, which makes pictures better in the dark/at night! After, we went back and chatted for a while, drank some tea, and went to BED! It was nice to sleep in a house and feel safe and in a REALLY NICE BED.  But, me and Karrah had to get up the next morning at 5 am to go to BERLIN, for the final leg of our trip.