European Adventures-Part 1

As stated in my last post, I left for Europe on May 20th with my Oma, Opa, and my cousins Jo and Mimi. Now, May 20th seems to be a lifetime away! The trip was so full of fun and many MANY friends and memories were made :)

 

Bear with me, as I am planning on doing the trip in several different posts, first of all so it doesn't become a huge bore to you, and secondly, so it doesn't take me as much time! This first post is about the trip there and the first day we spent in Germany.

 

Our flight left in the evening, but we left for the airport around 2 from Oma's house. At the airport Opa had passes for all of us into a lounge. We just hung out there for a while, snacking and walking around, until it was time to go to our gate.

 

Oma and Jo in the lounge.

 

We met a really nice family at the gate. They were from Iran and had a little boy, probably around 7 years old. Later on the plane they asked if we would trade seats. The plane had 3 sets of 3 seats, instead of 2 and we were on the right side at first. They traded their seats in the front row of the middle set of seats where there was a TON of legroom!! It was a great deal for us! We got a meal pretty soon after taking off and the rest of the trip we watched movies, read, slept, or talked quietly.

 

 

Yum! (not.)

 

Oh...and we (meaning Jo), managed to break the magazine holder off the wall in front of us. It was hard to keep from busting out in laughter, but somehow we managed to only giggle a little bit. Might have had something to do with the incredibly grumpy man across the aisle from us...

 

 

Almost there!!! We arrived in Frankfurt at 9 a.m. local time and went straight to the hotel. We stayed at the Sheraton connected to the airport. We had to wait a while for our rooms so we "enjoyed" a cappuccino while we waited. We quickly learned that an American cappuccino and European cappuccino are two VERY different things...blech.

 

 

 

After resting for a few hours we walked around the airport a bit, just looking in different shops. I got my first souvenir there!

 

 

 

Making fun of the exit sign in the airport...it actually just looks like he is running into a wall.

 After shopping around we went back and played some scrabble.

 

Wednesday morning we had our first truly European breakfast. It isn't near as good as what we had later at the Pfister's or at Antioch, but it was a good first breakfast! We said goodbye to Oma and Opa's friends at the hotel. Since they stay at that hotel 2 times a year they have some people who know them well and take care of them.

 

Me, Enver, Mimi, Jo, Ahmed

 

Well, this may take more posts than I thought! Hopefully you aren't already bored, although I promise the trip gets MUCH more interesting!