Flight was only slightly turbulent (immediately after eating dinner- thank you windsheers)! Made a new Phillipino friend (hi Julio!) and arrived in Frankfurt with no problems. Met another new friend (Hi Camille!) who is a bostonian studying abroad in Berlin and we lost our luggage together (turned out we were just standing at the wrong luggage turntable thingy!) (Unfortunately, she actually did lose some luggage, sorry Camille, gotta run!) The hardest part, honestly of trying to get to Koblenz, was figuring out how to use these gosh darn payphones!
I think airports are built to intimidate/impress foreigners (this was done successfully in Frankfurt).
When Sarah met me at Koblenz, we visited the grocery store, and walked back to her apt. (her roommate is a total hottie, but I have yet to speak a full sentence to him. He only speaks to me in gestures through Sarah. We'll figure something out, maybe I'll be able to converse with him in the language of Love.) Here are the grocery store and some graffiti!
After a nap to catch up with my jet legs, we were startled by the prevalence of fireworks on our brisk walk down a tributary of the rhine. we visited Kaiser Wilhelm and Mozel + Rhine meeting point and admired the European tone of the place. also, the ducks. (and a swan)
This is a terrific photo mainly because it does not show how Terrified Sarah was of this swan!We ate a delicious dinner of fresh pasta, fresh bread and red wine. Then popped a bottle of champagne before we headed into town to see the real celebrations! (we brought the champagne with us Mimosa style in a Nalgene, very tasteful, very chic.)
We joined a large crowd of people admiring the fireworks in a square. There was a band playing American Rockabilly which was terrific for dancing, however my lack of German hindered me on the dance floor. I asked one guy who then spoke to his friend and giggled like a school girl and didn't respond. I then wrote him off as gay. Sarah and I danced our faces off and had a killer time. My dress made a bigger hit as we wandered Koblenz looking for another place to dance. We stumbled into an Irish bar and started dancing with some seamen, we were bought tequila shots. We were stars! ("from the big apple!")
What a wonderful Night! Its a great time to be in Germany (without knowing German)!
Auf Weidersehen!
Gigi
p.s. here's the Rockabilly band Danny and the Wonderbras during their encore.
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