Sunday Erin and I joined up with the girls in Stuttgart for a day trip. It was awesome. We went to the Porsche Museum before we met up with everyone to quickly find a key chain for Erin's brother. We though Porsche gift shop will HAVE to sell authentic key chains...no such luck. We left with postcards. So Stuttgart is the location of the second largest "fest" in Germany. Only Oktoberfest is bigger. It was like a big carnival with really big beer tents in the middle! It was a cloudy overcast day so there was plenty of space. We looked into a beer tent to see people standing on tables, drinking lots of beer, and singing! It was pretty awesome, but we're not beer drinkers so we moved along. We rode the HUGE ferris wheel, which freaked me out a bit, but eventually I calmed down. I hate to sit on the sidelines and wait and the ferris wheel is pretty tame. The high in the sky swings I passed on though! No death swing for me, thank you very much! Erin and Kelly went up and had a good time.
The weather was kind of crazy all day. It was mostly cloudy and overcast, but for a short time while the girls were on the swings the sun came out and it was beautiful! The beautiful didn't last long, a down pour started soon after and we ended up taking cover under the overhang from a ride! Luckily the down pour was short lived and we were able to get back out and walk with a little bit of sprinkles the rest of the way. At this point we decided it was time to head for the train station and home, in case more rain was on the way. Everyone else seemed to have the same idea. The train station was packed! We were luck to find seats together right away though. As we got further away from Stuttgart and the carnival the train got less full with each stop so we were able to get a bit more comfortable.
On Monday Erin and I had the day off from working on Saturday. Now that is the way to start your week...everyone else going to work while you sleep in! We had a great morning doing whatever needed to get done. Then we headed into town, Ansbach, to try and figure out the bus system from base. So I had been able to find one time for pick-up online, at 10:20am, but we were looking to leave closer to noon. So we decided to wing it. When we got to the bus stop the next pick-up wasn't until 1:50, almost two hours away! So we went to the TKS shop to buy phone minutes, we sat in the sun until it got too cold, and then we decided to call the cab. Before we left we checked the drop off times to get home! There was a bus dropping off around 6:30pm and another at 4:30pm. So we wrote all the train times down for reference later!
We decided to drop off at the castle and wander the shopping we found our first weekend here. Erin found the H&M was actually here rather than in the mall! So we stopped to do a little window shopping, and they had a plus size section as well! It wasn't as big as Heidelberg's section, but it was still nice to see. I'll probably check it out again soon. I was finally able to buy an umbrella and Erin found a rain jacket. It was a pretty productive day. When it was time to head back we went to the main bus depot across from the castle. We found that our bus came by every 15 minutes but the didn't always stop at our location. So we had to wait for 30 minutes to catch the correct bus that would take us all the way out to our stop. That gave me time to make hotel reservations for Claire's stay though! It is right down the road from the train station and looks out on the castle! I didn't even have to put any money down. I need to go back and fix some times, but for the most part, she's all set! Once we were on the bus it only took 15 minutes to get back to base and it only cost 1.20 euro to get on, which is so much better than the 12 euro it costs to get the taxi! Unfortunately the bus is only an option when we have a weekday off and we can get to the bus stop by 6pm...which will be rare. But we had a good time!
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