Our high school friend Randy, who is currently working in Holland at the moment, decided to pay us a visit while we were here in Germany. The exciting parts of Düsseldorf can usually be seen all in one day and so we needed something to do. We opted to going to Frankfurt. Steph found a museum, called the Dialog Museum, that is a blind museum. It shows you what it would be like to be blind. They take you through parks, over a bridge etc. but it is all in the dark. On certain days, they actually give you food to taste. It sounded so cool and so we thought we would go there. We decided to get a head start on the day and catch a 9am train but, unfortunately, all the trains were an hour behind. Luckily, we were able to make the 10am but only to get off the wrong transfer stop. This error caused us to be another hour late for our next connecting train. Randy was happy though because he could have more German McDonalds, which is honestly the best McDonalds in the world. Finally, we made it to Frankfurt for 4pm. We reached the museum but there were no English tours that day. Disappointed, we went to do some shopping but there was one thing we found that would raise our spirits: German Bubble Tea. Steph and I couldn't get there faster! After months of being deprived of our liquid drug, we could finally have it. The Bubble Tea was, like, the best thing
ever! Afterward, we crossed the street to catch the bus to the Frankfurt Altstadt, when Stephanie discovered a man who looked exactly like Hulk Hogan. He had the same tan skin, blond mustache shape, sunglasses, bandanna, the matching muscles to boot, etc. I didn't believe it and so I forced them to take the bus so we were never able to find out if it was him. The one positive thing about taking the bus at that time was a Bachelor party. One man offered us a beer and then the groom walked towards us. He was wearing a tan, sparkly State Trooper outfit that was obviously three sizes to small with a big box of random junk he was selling. He had to make some money to buy things at the bar later that night. We bought the new Beck's Black current beer (which is disgusting) and wished him well. The shopping in
Frankfurt is really great. There is so much there and they actually have shopping malls. They had a big event thing going on in the square and so there were lots of people, balloons, and fake tattoo artists. So, we shopped till we dropped and resisted the urge to get fake tattoos to freak out our parents. We then headed back to the train station and waited almost an hour to get to the ticket counter to buy tickets. We asked for the special deal for 41 euros but the man forgot to give us an itinerary. We went back and it turns out that we had to take five different trains and we would get home for 4am. I threw a fit in the Hauptbahnhof and then we were on our way. We figured we would sit in a bar for the hour and a half wait in Au. Au, as it turns out, is a small town that has absolutely nothing there. No restaurants, hotels or bars. So Steph and I had to sit around in our shorts at 2am. We sat in an elevator for warmth like homeless people. We were kicked out by a security guard an hour later. We finally made it home for 5am and we slept into the early afternoon. Randy, however, slept until 5pm.
Our high school friend Randy, who is currently working in Holland at the moment, decided to pay us a visit while we were here in Germany. The exciting parts of Düsseldorf can usually be seen all in one day and so we needed something to do. We opted to going to Frankfurt. Steph found a museum, called the Dialog Museum, that is a blind museum. It shows you what it would be like to be blind. They take you through parks, over a bridge etc. but it is all in the dark. On certain days, they actually give you food to taste. It sounded so cool and so we thought we would go there. We decided to get a head start on the day and catch a 9am train but, unfortunately, all the trains were an hour behind. Luckily, we were able to make the 10am but only to get off the wrong transfer stop. This error caused us to be another hour late for our next connecting train. Randy was happy though because he could have more German McDonalds, which is honestly the best McDonalds in the world. Finally, we made it to Frankfurt for 4pm. We reached the museum but there were no English tours that day. Disappointed, we went to do some shopping but there was one thing we found that would raise our spirits: German Bubble Tea. Steph and I couldn't get there faster! After months of being deprived of our liquid drug, we could finally have it. The Bubble Tea was, like, the best thing 
ever! Afterward, we crossed the street to catch the bus to the Frankfurt Altstadt, when Stephanie discovered a man who looked exactly like Hulk Hogan. He had the same tan skin, blond mustache shape, sunglasses, bandanna, the matching muscles to boot, etc. I didn't believe it and so I forced them to take the bus so we were never able to find out if it was him. The one positive thing about taking the bus at that time was a Bachelor party. One man offered us a beer and then the groom walked towards us. He was wearing a tan, sparkly State Trooper outfit that was obviously three sizes to small with a big box of random junk he was selling. He had to make some money to buy things at the bar later that night. We bought the new Beck's Black current beer (which is disgusting) and wished him well. The shopping in Frankfurt is really great. There is so much there and they actually have shopping malls. They had a big event thing going on in the square and so there were lots of people, balloons, and fake tattoo artists. So, we shopped till we dropped and resisted the urge to get fake tattoos to freak out our parents. We then headed back to the train station and waited almost an hour to get to the ticket counter to buy tickets. We asked for the special deal for 41 euros but the man forgot to give us an itinerary. We went back and it turns out that we had to take five different trains and we would get home for 4am. I threw a fit in the Hauptbahnhof and then we were on our way. We figured we would sit in a bar for the hour and a half wait in Au. Au, as it turns out, is a small town that has absolutely nothing there. No restaurants, hotels or bars. So Steph and I had to sit around in our shorts at 2am. We sat in an elevator for warmth like homeless people. We were kicked out by a security guard an hour later. We finally made it home for 5am and we slept into the early afternoon. Randy, however, slept until 5pm. 
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