ZOom zoom zoOM!

Yes! So I finally achieved to find a suitable car for my taste. There is a bunch of stuff I'ld like to say about the day - I've had many encounters with troublesome issues, but since I lost the entire text I wrote before I'll just say "Ende gut alles gut" - As long as the end is turns out well, everything is good. I got the car, its just as I had imagined it and I'm all happy.

Back in the US of A

Yup, I'm back again. But since I promised some cool pics of this open air bar I was in I'll just be posting some pics... I'll update the blog with the things that are going on in my life as soon as I get a car and get my resume finshed.

The first picture on the top is of the view from the bar and the one under it shows how the place is set up. During the night the white columns light up with colors such as yellow and red and provides a graet addition to the already awesome athmosphere. You can find more about it here

Last day in Germany :(

So its the last day in Germany. I'm left kinda feeling sad but I'm also in anticipation of the upcoming changes in my life. For one I'll finally have my own car (yeeeees!!!) and I'll be getting an apartment. Additionally there are all the other stuff that are theoretically of more importance than cars and your own apartment - health insurance, car insurance, a JOB, and much more. I;m going to have to be on top of things and manage all my money - which till then was, is and will be more like: "oh, I have money! Lets use it!". I'm really excited and hope things work out fine.

Otherwise, life has been pretty swell. I've been spending a lot of time online looking at different cars and their prices (ouch!). I went out with a bunch of old friends to this really awesome place in town. It wasn't there during my last visit to Wiesbaden so I guess its fairly new...Anyways, its on the top (with that I mean no roof type of top) of the parking lot building (what is it usually called?). They laid out these wooden tiles all over the place, have their own DJ (pretty good music - all trace or house: whatever the difference is...), and there are a bunch of beach chairs. So this place has a great view over the city, looks really trendy, has a beach atmosphere, and is always packed full with people. Oh, and they sell LOTS of drinks!! Why can't people in MN come up with such great ideas?? So the evening was really nice. I enjoyed talking to my old friends and catching up with all the changes that took place. In al it wasl a great evening (and the booze was awesome too :-D )

Today I'm not really sure what I want to do. I have to pack and get ready to leave the country, but the weather is soo nice that I'm thinking of going outside to take some pictures. The area I live in has some awesome old style houses that were build 100 years ago (and have been maintained properly!!). I could go walk around and get some pics of em...Plus I might want to go into town and up onto that car park so I can show off what cool facilities Wiesbaden has to offer :). I'll post those pictures tonight if I have time. Well, I'm off for a walk I guess...

Did I ever say that the Germans are crazy?? Wtf is this??!!

Following the Path of the Knights!

Just two days ago, my parents and I decided to go visit one of my fathers really old friend - she was the daughter of the family that took care of my family right after WWII. After having a cup of tea at her house we proceeded to a monastery up on top of a mountain. The monastery itself was around 700 years old, but absolutely huge!!
I can't imagine how it would be, having to carry all the bricks up the steep hills. The sad thing about the monastery is that it was abandoned in the 1700s after it was damaged during a local conflict. So when I went to see it the entire roofing was missing and everything looked sort of sad.
The view from the monastery - you can see Fort Hardenburg
So after the monastery we went to see Hardenburg, which is a fortificated castle - and this fort we could see from the monastery (look at picture)
This castle was huge! It had its own bakery, huge sleeping quarters, garden, and it even had its own jail! There was also a tower...This tower rises high into the sky and you can see the entire complex from there (this is the last resort tower - where the knights and whoever else goes when the enemy makes it into the central complex of the fort). Thanking God for giving me acrophobia, I forced my cramped legs to get me to the top of this tower and took some pics of the scenery.
Here is that nice sceneryThats me up on the tower being a bit scared :(
Other than that, we walked though the entire (well almost) castle and checked out all the cool rooms it had. Most of the rooms were way dark so that I was wetting my parents once again thanks to claustophobia and whatever the fear of dark thing is called.
After the fort we went to a cafe and had some eis cream, and tea and then returned home. Yeah, I got to drive the cool car again...Sure will miss this car when I get back to the States.