Frankfurt Trip

I took another day trip, this time to Frankfurt, last week. I went with my German teacher, Cordula, her 3 daughters, and my teammate Hellen. It was a great time. Frankfurt is about an hour away from Heidelberg. It was awesome. The girls were great, and as you can see below, we had a great time! The oldest, Franziska, was very cute. She is learning English in school right now, and would try and speak English with me, and even helped me with my German throughout the trip. Franziska is on the left, Sophia on the right, and Christina is in the front.

Hellen came along with us too! Hellen and her family used to be neighbors with Cordula. That is the connection of how I became her student. Anyways, Hellen has always made sure that I understand things or that I'm in the loop with what's going on. More than that, she has just become a great friend =) I'm happy that she was there, just another fun adventure that we got to share!

And this is Christina..and THE dolphin. We picked up this lovely buddy towards the beginning of our trip. As you can see, he is perfectly inflated and believe it or not, she was very excited to have him. It was the entertainment of the day. He almost made it through the whole day too, which would have been amazing. Unfortunately, we weren't so lucky, this little guy popped just as we were going to dinner. It was slightly funny, but definitely not to Christina. Poor little girl was so tired from the long day and to top it off her friend was "dying" and that just wasn't ok. After about 10 minutes of trying to calm her down, and blowing the dolphin back up, we made it to dinner. Another bad idea was to but a jacket on top of the dolphin to keep him from flying away. By the end of dinner, he was completely deflated. She didn't take it too hard. At my next lesson, Cordula informed me that the dolphin had slept in bed with Christina the last few nights. I believe it is still a current inhabitant of the household =)

And here is the group I went with. This was our midday snack. It was a little restaurant that sat at the edge of the square that was in front of the rathaus, the city hall.



This is a picture of the old, I believe opera house. They still hold concerts in here, because it is said to have a great sound for music. I like this picture because you can see the contrast of the past and the present. right necxt to the old building, you can see a new, definitely modern buiding. It was that close that the difference in architecture shows in the 2 buildings, crazy.

Overall, it was a great trip, filled with tons of laughs and smiles and of course good company. I'm happy that I was able to make the trip and that everyone who was there, was there.