Our first day in Germany at the Reisch's home started with a fantastic breakfast: an assortment of rolls, jams, cheeses, thinly sliced deli meats, juices, and juice, tea or coffee, depending on one's desire. Then after resting up from breakfast, Dieter drove Sabine, Hanna, DeeDee and me to Stuttgart. We walked around a Protestant baroque style church built in 1618 and then went to the Mercedes Benz Museum. However, when we got there, found that the line to get in was VERY VERY long. So, we drove around Stuttgart for a little while and went to the Stuttgart Natural History Museum instead. The museum had wonderful exhibits, many with life size skeletons of dinosaurs, great geological exhibits of Europe and the local area in Germany, and more than could really be seen in one visit.
Except for all the little, teeny, cars zipping around all over the place, everyone speaking German, all the stores having German names and words on their windows and doors, and all the road signs and traffic controls making no sense at all to me, we felt right at home due to the weather - it could have been Scappoose or Portland, as they were having the same type of Spring there as we had here, cloudy, rainy, etc, with occasional blue patches in the sky.
On the way home, we were told we were going to stop at a restaurant for some "authentic German food". As we pulled into the parking lot, it looked a little familiar, since the name of the establishment was: BURGER KING. The food looked the same and tasted the same, but was a little more in price than back here in the States. The only thing we noticed that was different was that we kept our food on the trays that it came on and instead of taking the trays to a trash can when we were done, we put the trays into individual slots in a 6 foot or so tall tray holder type of container; and when all the slots in the container were full, a worker would just roll out out a new empty container take the full one away.
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