Frankfuuurt.

Today was quite lazy at first. I set about 10 alarms before I went to bed the night before, so I knew I would wake up. I got up at about 10am and walked around, everyone else was still in bed. Paul was being read to, so I went back to sleep for a bit.

I got up around 11am and we were planning on going skiing, but it was too dangerous to drive on the roads. Julia stayed in bed a bit longer and then we all had breakfast together. There was a lot of new year's bread around the house, becuase everyone got it as a gift from some relatives the day before. We ate that and then spent more time around the house.

Julia and I decided to go into Frankfurt for the rest of the day and we caught our train at 12.40pm. We walked to the train and it wasn't raining anymore, so that was nice. We caught the train and it wasn't too full, so that was nice. We got seats and sat there for the next 1.4 hours to Frankfurt.

We got to the main station and had to catch the S-bahn to the city. We walked around the shops a little bit and tried to find Julia a jacket. I ended up getting a nice scarf that was on sale and some lovely woolen socks... We walked around some more and really just shopped for the rest of the day. We went to Zara 3 times during our visit there, I think it was on the 2nd trip that I found some really nice boots. Julia finally bought a jacket on our 3rd trip there and was happy with it. We visited some more shops and I got some jeans for my sister becuase everything is seriously cheaper here than in Australia.

We started heading back after 5pm, we went outside of the main train station and bought soft drink for the trip home and bought my ticket, then got on the train. Our train was at about 6pm and it was really full. We got small seats and were kept entertained by a German business man turning to speak English, then 2 other people who were travelling and only spoke English. We got off the train at Bürgeln and walked home. We showed Julia's mum what we had bought and then sat down in the lounge room.

After a little bit dinner was ready and we ate stirfry with rice. We all went back into the lounge, Paul and Julia's dad continued to watch Star Wars and Julia's mum and I sat on the couch.

We eventually made Julia play the German of Trouble with us, whilst drinking Apple wine. I of course, won, only with the help of Julia's dad because they play it strangely. I then got a phone call from home and spent half an hour talking to my mother while everyone went to bed. I got to bed after 12am.

I didn't get to take any photos today... Woops.

Airports and the lot.

I arrived at the airport in Melbourne quite early and had lots of time before my flight. The plane was late getting in from L.A, so I had to wait an extra 30 minutes for boarding.
The flight to Doha, Qatar was long... 14 hours. The food and everything was good though.
After landing in Doha, because the airport is quite small and new we had to walk down stairs from the plane and then catch a bus to the main building. I found my way around and decided to go to the food court. I got chips and root beer (most of the other food was strange.) They were the only ones I really knew would be safe.

The view of the Iraq area from the plane

It was finally time for boarding and we had to catch another bus back to the plane. I had to seats to myself and I had a window seat too. The flight was only 6 hours but it took forever!
When we landed in Frankfurt, we were early. But we weren't. The gate we were meant to use was being used by another plane, so after 20 minutes of waiting, the plane was towed to another gate.

We still had to walk down stairs off the plane because they weren't prepared for us, this is when I got my first taste of Germany's winter. It was already snowing and it was all white.

I think I walked through about half the airport in Frankfurt and then finally found my way to be picked up by the family.
Frankfurt aiport is the biggest in Germany, to get from one terminal to the other you have to this special train that takes about 3 minutes. It's all so different to Australia.
The drive to where I am staying in Marburg is about an hour on the Autobarn.

The view the whole way to the house was amazing, but this could be just because I'm not used to seeing snow.

I knew I was in Germany when I saw snow flakes/ice on my window.My flowers from the family. :)