My Wonderful Observations About Germany

1. There are no screens in the windows here. They open their windows--and leave them wide open with no screens! It makes me uncomfortable because God knows how many spiders have crawled in. I have noticed that there are definitely not as many bugs here than there are at home. Regardless, the no screen thing is just weird to me.
2. They have ugly hair. Yes, I said it. I know I don't have the best hair. But, it looks the best over here! Call it what you want to call it, but no one here can do hair. Darin went to get his haircut last year and he got a mullet at first (before he demanded the tail to be taken off). I thought maybe it was just the city we were in. So I get here this year ready to find somewhere to get my highlights put it and I'm immediately warned by some of the women who have been here for years: DON'T DO IT. They have been to every place here. One girls blonde hair turned green. She went back 3 times to get it re-done. They don't understand the concept of highlights. They can make your hair purple. Or green. You can get spikes. Or the German favorite, the popular mullet. But other than that--you are screwed. Thank God one of the girls is a hair stylist from Jersey who brought her hair supply's here, she might have just saved my life :)
3. You're always in their way. You need to watch where they are walking. They don't mind running over you. And you don't get an excuse me or sorry.

There are many more observations, but I'll save them for another day :) OH--and the pictures of that beautiful flower car is definitely what we drive around in... very interesting, wouldn't you say? I know you are jealous you don't have flowers on the sides of your car...

A helpful hint for Germany

Deodorant was invented for a reason.

USE IT.

I'm so sick of everyone in this country smelling like B.O. How do you NOT notice it on yourself? Don't you people take pride in personal hygiene? The wonderful thing we like to call DEODORANT was invented for a purpose---so please people, start using it. If I walk by one more person who smells like a pile of shit, I don't know what I am going to do. UHHHHHHH.

Cruising along the Rhine River

The guys played away all weekend so a few of us girls decided to take a little trip. We went to Bacharach, Germany and took a day cruise from there on the Rhine River. It was by far the cutest small town I have been to over here. We started out our day in Bacharach by getting some lunch....an assorted cheese tray with lots of bread and a wine tasting carousel. You can never go wrong with cheese or wine, so life was perfect for me at that moment :) We got on the boat after that and continued our consumption of wine. It was a beautiful day outside so we went to the top deck of the boat and enjoyed the scenery from there. There were old castles all up and down the river.... you always see things like that in pictures, magazines or tv shows, but actually seeing it in person was an amazing experience. We ended the night at an Irish pub where the owner was very kind to us and showed us a great time.

Here are some pictures from the weekend, enjoy! :)