Welcome Back NYE!

Published on Jan. 1, 2005 in Germany

A long flight, where I slept for seven of the nine hours!!

So, here is the recap.  On the night of the 31st we all left for Heidelberg.  Now, for those of you who don't know, Heidelberg is the epitome of a cheerful little German town.  We walked around for a few hours, but our mission was not in Heidelberg: Fankfurt, here we came!

After returning to the train, we started to drink the wine that was purchased earlier.  I guess the only way to describe this wine is as follows:

Mix one part Shiraz with one part cooking wine.  Add some gin.

It was so gross.  The five of us could hardly drink one bottle, so it ended up being a waste.  Upon arriving in Frankfurt we immediatly went to the Irish bar accross the street from the train station.  Why would we do this?  Well, our flight left the next morning at 10:00am, so there was no way we were going to sleep.  And since it was New Years Eve, walking would likely be difficult.  We had our drinks, drank our Guinness, and somehow got challenged by some Army Girls at pool.  Well, the deal was, if we lost, we had to buy them drinks.  If they lost, they would do ANYTHING we wanted.  The only problem is, I don't think any of knew if we wanted to lose or win...  Well, we lost, thankfully.  Somebody sank the 8 ball.

Around 12:00 we went to one of the big bridges.  In Frankfurt, fireworks are certainly legal.  The only issue I had was when a bunch of drunk people launched fireworks from a bridge.  You can imagine fireworks zooming by in every direction.  It was great.

Around 6:00am we said good'bye to Carson's friend, and to Ben as well (he was going back to Spain).  Casey, Carson and myself went to the airport, ate some amazing Mccie D's, and fell asleep in the play structure.  All was great, and I was in a blissfull sleep, until these annoying kids came running into the structure screaming "this is mine this is mine."  Well, there are three passed out hung over people in the top part of this play structure, so go yell somewhere else.  That was a nightmare.

Eventually the three of us wandered to the gate, checked in, and boarded.  I was very lucky, happily sleeping almost the entire way.  It was like a teleportttttteeeerrrrrr.

This trip was just too much fun.  Casey was a blast to go with, Ben was awsome to see -- and we met so many amazing people.  I am not staying in contact or showing my appreciation as much as I should, but hopefully they will always know how much better they made our trip.