Besuchen wir Regensburg!

Hello happy smiling friends and family. It is currently quite late here, but this is my time to update the blog, since my blogging time after now will not be so much.

6-12-08

Matthew and I had class today and basically spent the entire day on the train from 1:30 till like 7:30. It was a long time. Michael came and picked us up at the Train station. It was so nice to see him. He must be going through a longer hair phase now too, because his hair has gotten much longer since the last time we saw him.

Michael took us around Regensburg with the car, just giving us a taste for the city. We then headed off to his house, where we met his parents, Gabbi and Peter. They are both very nice and sweet, and I think that they enjoy us, especially me, because apparently I must be funny, because Peter is always laughing at me. Good naturedly of course, hehe, he is so sweet.

We were welcomed with a lovely dinner of Steaks, potatoes, and salad. It was nice to have some home cooking. After dinner, we went upstairs to Michael's room, where we stayed and talked for some time until we went to sleep.

6-13-08

Today we woke up... around 9 I would say. Michael came up to get us at about 10. Then we all proceeded to sit and talk for an hour or so before going down to eat breakfast.
At about noon we decided to head downstairs for breakfast. It was of course a typical Bavarian breakfast with hard rolls, cold meats, big pretzels, jams, spreadable meat (yup, kinda like spam), and very tasty juices made in this Regensburg area, orange juice and passions fruit, and then a mixed vitamin juice with like 20 different fruits.

After breakfast, we all showered and then dicked around on the computer with Michael for a time. when we were finished, like 2:30 pm we got going into town. Micahel showed us all around Regensburg. We went and saw two churches that were attached to each other. Michael has not been in these churches since his grandfathers funeral in one of them. He then showed us a huge palace that is bigger than Buckingham Palace in London. We did not go into it, because the tour cost like 9€ per person and Matthew and I felt that that was just a bit much for students to be paying.

We kept on walking through the city and saw several prominent buildings from the outside. I am not sure that we actually saw from the inside besides the two churches and then the Regensburg Dom. It is basically the equivalent of the Cologne Dom for Bavaria or at least for Regensburg. It is not as big as the Kölner Dom, but it was still pretty nice.

We also walked the old stone bridge, which for Regensburg is a treasure. It is quite old, and it gives a nice view of the very, very, dirty Danube.

We also saw a punk rock band and fest, which was interesting and was gathering a lot of punk and goth Germans. The band was pretty bad and was either from the states or from England. Either was their accent was not pronounced enough to make a definite decision.

After this, Matthew and I were starving, so we went to eat at an Italian Restaurant called Von Tito. Matthew had a huge pizza, I had a very rich four cheese pasta, and Michael had a very tasty tortellini mushroom pasta.

The food was so rich, that I got an upset stomach, so instead of taking rolaids, Michael made me, Matthew, and himself drink a shot of Ramonzotti which is supposed to be good for digestion.

Later we went and got an ice cream cone from a Gelatieria (Italian ice cream) for dessert!

We then went and met Michael's girlfriend Judith at the cinemax to go and see the movie "Nie Weider Sex mit dem Ex", Translating to "No More sex with the ex". this film is actually the U.S's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Go figure huh? Apparently in Europe and so forth they change the names instead of simply translating them for marketing purposes.

the film was very funny and I am pretty sure that we all enjoyed it. It was my third time in a German theater and Matthew's first.

Afterwards we went to a bar called "Latino" Where we each had at least one drink and we chatted with Michael and Judith. It was a nice place, the music was fun to listen to and the atmosphere was good for talking; the only thing was that it was extremely hot!!!

I should mention that Michael and his family were generous enough to treat for dinner, Ice Cream, the movie, and drinks afterwards today. Matthew and I did not have to pay for anything today and while Michael may not think much of it, we are so very thankful to him and his family for doing this for us. We are poor college students and their treating us really helped us enjoy this weekend! Thank you for being so sweet, lovely, and generous to us!

After drinks, it was quite late, so we decided to head home. By the time we got in bed, I believe it was 2 AM.

6-14-08

Today, Matthew and I woke up at 10, showered, ate another lovely Breakfast, and headed into town. However, Michael had many problems today with his back. I am sure he either pinched a nerve or he pulled a muscle because he was hurting all day.

Since Matthew and I have done the hard core tourist things up until now, we decided to just spend today relaxing!!!

We spent basically the entire day clothes shopping. this resulted in my buying a jacket and a pink top (they are both very cute and European, My clothing shopping will end there, but I was lucky that I got my items on sale).

Later, at around 5 pm we went and picked up Judith and proceeded to go to Valle Halle. It is modeled after the Acropolis in Greece. It is huge, marble, and cool!!! The view from the top was beautiful and Matthew and I were so excited about how much we are going to tease Davin about it when we get back to the states!!! ( Davin, we loves you!!! ;) )

We spent about 30 mins there, dropped Judith back off home so she could keep studying for her examinations, and went home for dinner.

For dinner tonight we had Schweinebraten and Knödel. Basically pig steak and huge potato dumplings, as well as salad and beer. For dessert, Gabbi had made us a strawberry cake. It was delicious and we loved it!!!!

After dinner, Matthew, Michael, and I sampled a few different types of liquor that Michael's father let us try. They were quite potent, and I only tried 3.

We then proceeded to watch some of the Russia vs. Greece soccer game for the Euro cup. Russia won. 1 to 0.
It was fun to watch, Matthew and I both really like Soccer!

Then, Matthew and I showed Michael redonkulous videos on Youtube. For the end of the night, Michael and Matthew played a Resident Evil Game on Michael's Wii and I blogged for quite some time, for over an hour.

Tomorrow, we plan to see a few churches and meet up with Judith at a running Sushi bar in town before we have to get on the train back to Mayen around 2-ish.

We hope that you are all doing well and taking care.

I will try to post pictures as soon as I get back tomorrow, if not, then sorry. I will try to get them up real soon!

Much love, Biss Dann!