Princess Problems

Originally this weekend was supposed to be complete European adventure, but reality took its toll and we realized going to France today would probably not be the best idea when we have so much homework to finish up. No worries, we just postponed it until next weekend.

This weekend did have its share of adventures, even if we could not leave the country...

# 7 Thursday, September 1: This day was particularly overwhelming when it came to German class, but it was also so exciting because we finalized our plans to travel to Scotland and England over our Fall break. Round trip with 4 buses and 2 flights came out to only be 150 American Dollars! How amazing? We wanted to celebrate by going to Moor's, an Irish Pub in town for ladies night, but we were all too tired. The free champagne would have to wait. We instead wanted some comfort food. French fries it was! We even splurged and paid the extra 30 cents for ketchup (yeah, they charge you for everything around here), but that was a rookie move. We forgot they don't have normal ketchup in Germany, but rather curry ketchup. Ughhh, huge disappointment after we poured it all over the fries. I guess you live and you learn...no ketchup around here.

#8 Friday, September 2: After a very rough week of grammar, we all decided the diskos in Mannheim would be a perfect place to celebrate. We got all dressed up and headed out...except on the wrong train of course. It was bound to happen sometime. Once we got ourselves headed back in the right direction we realized we still had about an hour of traveling ahead of us...sooo, we decided to make friends. An Irish man next to us recognized we were Americans and we started chatting. He was real cool and told us the best places for dancing in Mannheim. Once we arrived we explored the city using Hannah's map...it was surprisingly helpful.

Overall, it was a successful night at the diskos!

#9 Saturday, September 3: This is where we all started to develop Princess Problems. We live in the cutest city....that sits in a valley....overlooking the river....with beautiful mountains surrounding us...and a castle...how can we not feel like Princesses? Every other city looks like poop compared to what we have and we feel bad because we know when we get home we will probably never find things nearly as pretty anymore. We just like expect this beauty now...seriously a problem. Anywhooo, this all began when we went up to the Heidelberg Castle to celebrate Schlossfest. Schlossfest is celebrated 3 times a year in remembrance of when the castle was burned during the French Revolution. We toured the castle and were amazed by what we saw. The castle is not only beautiful, but also enormous! Although it was destroyed, old parts still remain along with the additions that every Kaiser built during their reign. In that sense it is very unique.



It also has the BEST views of the city! I remember coming up the castle when I was in high school on the exchange, and although we saw numerous castles..this one always was my favorite. 4 years later...

We all have discussed and just feel so honored to being able to spend our days in such a city. It is unreal. to end our day of activities, we climbed up the Philoshophenweg on the mountain on the other side of the bridge. There we all relaxed and waited for the fireworks show and the "burning of the castle".

Again, all I can say is that it was amazing! Do you see where the Princess Problems arise from?

#10 Sunday, September 4: No France. Although we had to reschedule, Caitlin and I still managed to have a lovely day laying out by the river doing homework. We might have been eaten alive by bugs, but it was still worth it.

I am just literally in love with this place. I hope you can all see why! Thanks for checking in! Miss you all

- Molly