Good morning world.

Hello. I started out yesterday at 8am Germany time (1am Central Time.) I went to the Smelsers, we had breakfast at 9 til 9:45. I went back to the Duckeck’s, and waited til the Smelsers and the Knapps came and picked me up. Then, we got on the road about 10:20. We got to Hannover’s airport at 11:30, and checked in, and waited til 12, and got loaded at 12:30, then lifted off between then and 12:45. Then we got to Paris about an hour later, and only had about 1.75 hours to find our next terminal. We luckily only had to take 1 hour of that, and then went through their security, and got to the gate while it was loading. Then we lifted off about 4pm, and after a 10.5 hour flight or something, we got to Houston about 7:30pm (Central time.) Going through Customs, that was fun. I accidentally followed the guy that sat next to me in the flight into his line, and then I realized it was the visitors line. And I saw the American line was much longer, but I got it in anyway. And about 9pm, we took off for Dallas. It was only a short flight (I doubt we got past 20,000ft), and we arrived shortly after 10pm. Then we got picked up by a lady from LST, And at 12:30am, I finally was able to fall asleep. (Note: This would be about 23.5 hours of staying awake, with only about 30 minutes of napping.)

And just a while ago, I woke up. Fully awake, nonetheless! I noticed, however, it was dark in the room, with no light shining under the curtains. So I glance at the clock, and it says: 5:18. Yay JETLAG!

Hannover

Well, I did my best to follow the Red Thread (as pictured here) but after about 1.5 hours, I lost it. Like, it was there, then I came to a corner, and there was construction, and I couldn’t find where it continued. So after that, I just wandered. On my picasa web album, you can see 118 pictures I took from my trip to Hannover. It was pretty cool there. There were stages set up all over the city for some reason, with just random bands playing. Oh, at one point, when I was walking in one section, there were two girls behind me, and they were talking english. But they looked a bit young, so I didn’t want to turn around and start talking to them, since I figured that’d probably freak them out a bit.

While there, I went into a bookstore that was pretty big (3 stories). I was able to find a Moleskine notebook! That made me happy, so I bought one. We also went in a huge department store that was 5 stories high, and on the bottom story was a grocery store. They had an American section! Heh…it had macaroni and cheese! And refried beans! And tabasco sauce…even chipotle! (I think Chipotle is the only good type of Tabasco, since it’s not so vinegary.) Anyway, I’m pretty sure I’ll visit that section alot when I come back for my internship. They also had hot pepper!

Anyway, yesterday was fun. I even fell asleep on the U-Bahn…haha. That wasted about 20 minutes worth of time.I’m not sure what I’m going to do today. At 8:45 is the Spain-Italy game, which should be really good. Last night was Netherlands vs Russia, and there wasn’t a score in the whole first half. Oi. That’s at least better than the Croatia-Turkey game the other night, where there wasn’t a score until the 118th minute! (That’s 2 minutes before the end of overtime.)

The Red Thread

So tomorrow is Hannover! And I’ve been going on Hannover’s website, and was looking at their tourism section, and I found this: The Red Thread. It’s apparently a red line through Hannover that passes 36 important sights in the city. I think I’ll follow that, and that will be much cheaper than going to the zoo!

Hannover = Expensive?

Ok, so aside from having to pay €9 ($14) for my 1/3 of the ticket to Hannover (one ticket can be used for 5 people) I’m finding out that Hannover is going to be expensive. Like if I want to go to the zoo (which I do) it’s going to cost €20! ($30!) Or if I want to go into a castle there, it’s something like €10 ($15), and then I don’t even want to imagine how much it’s going to cost to eat there! Oi vey. Any help would be appreciated. Please talk to my parents! ^^