Germans in their "sexy tight leather pants"

     (S) Well this is the first blog post that Tim isn't part of, but since I went on this extraordinary trip with Laci I had to post it! For those of you who don't know, Laci has been studying abroad in Europe last summer so we arranged for me to fly out to Frankfurt to pick her up and we'd have a fun weekend in the city! Side note: if you were wondering the title of this post? Last time I was in Germany I was in a classroom and they asked me what stereotypes Americans had about Germans. I couldn't think of any, so one guy shouted out "Don't you think about how all German men dress in sexy tight leather pants?!?" Well my mom loved that so much that when I went this time she was bringing that up and telling me to watch for the sexy leather pants, and NO JOKE while waiting in the airport I saw two people in tight leather pants. Hilarious.
     Anyways, to be quite honest Laci and I were quite the lame college-age travelers. We didn't get crazy and drink all the time or go to any crazy bars. We spent our time eating amazing food, and walking around the city. The first night we went to a local pub to drink some beer and watch one of  the world cup games. It was packed and I decided that during my time in Germany I wouldn't try any beer that I had heard of the name of before. I chose to drink a "radler" beer that was actually a combination of a beer and sprite. Interesting, but good! Laci got bangers and mash (aka sausages and mashed potatoes) and I had fish and chips. The fish was one huge filet that was the size of a whole fish! I was praying the whole time that I wouldn't accidentally eat a fish head but it was all good. The next morning we got up around 8 and wandered down to the free breakfast. After that we wandered into town following our map. We were looking for Zeil which is a huge shopping center, but on the way we ran into a festival going on! It had a bunch of various vendors with different foods from around the world. We chose to drink some of the local Apfelwein which tastes like the cider we drink in the states. We also shared some fries that were made by a drill. Note the picture below, but it spun around and spiral cut the potato. Awesome. We continued walking through town and came across some street performers. Well, if you don't know me, I LOVE street performers of all kinds. We stopped to check them out and suddenly they starting walking forward down the street. We looked down the road, and realized we had wandered into a parade! Quickly we ran through town as far up as possible so we could see more of the parade. It was called "Parade of the World" (translated by Laci aka made up by Laci) and had tons of different countries and cultures represented. It was so fun seeing all of the costumes and dances! We then checked out an old area of Frankfurt called Rothenburg and bought tons of souvenirs for our friends and family back home. We went through an old church, and walked into a park, and ended the evening going to the top of the Main Tower. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city and had an observatory on the top. B-E-A-utiful! We being the lame-o people that we were, fell asleep by 9 that night! Haha.
     The next day we went on a boat tour down the main river, walked around more of the town, and ended our night on a romantic sister date at a Greek restaurant. I know i know, Tim already gave me a hard time for going to Greek food in Germany, but it was delicious so I don't even mind. But anyways, that's all! We flew back and were happy to be home. It was the perfect amount of time to see the city. Here are a few of the pictures and there are more on my facebook!

Potato maker!

Pizza Restaurant we went to. Delicious!

Part of the parade. Adorable Swedish (?) dancers

My hat I bought! It says "Deutschland." I got Tim one as well, his says "Frankfurt". He loves it.

Sweet beer mugs, that cost an arm and a leg, hence me NOT buying one, but I wanted one so bad!

Part of Rothenburg, beautiful right?

Laci checking out part of the Dom church

KEG BIKE!!! Coolest thing we have EVER seen in life.

Laci on top of the Main Tower

View of Frankfurt

Part of the Frankfurt skyline

We went to a communication museum and they had these phone sheep to welcome us in! Their bodies were made of phone cords, their heads were phones, and their fee were little phones!

Part of the museum and a teacher's dream room. It was all about cheaters in school! Here was one of the images and they had tons of real examples of how students have been busted cheated. In this picture there is a ruler, notes on the wrist,  in a pencil sharpener, carved into CHOCOLATE, etc. It was a room full of cheating ways around the world.

Sister date night