Sit, Eat, Drink.

Day 1 in Germany was full of immediate immersion into life in a new country. Hopping of the plane at 8am local time (2am Va Beach time...) we toured around our new town and house, took a short but much needed nap, and headed out to meet up with old friends who for some unfortunate reason are on their way out of the country as we are on our way in. They, knowing Stuttgart obviously better than us at this moment in time, took us to experience our first fest.

My mother and I determined what you do in Germany - sit, eat, and drink. At this particular fest fish was the featured food (apparently each fest has a different featured food and drink, but there's ALWAYS beer of course). We staked a claim on a table and sent the 9 year twins out with euros in hand to buy us sampling of everything from flankuchen (pizza without sauce),  to beer battered fish, to spiced nuts. And even though the drinking age in Germany is practically nonexistent the adults were still in charge of purchasing the beer and other assorted drinks. I have to admit that I will be attending basically every fest I can find because what better way is there to spend a Sunday afternoon than eating and drinking with friends? None that I can come up with.

We also got a chance to explore the main platz in Stuttgart. Platz means "place" in German and each of the little squares around town are called something-platz. This particular one was huge, bordered on one side by a municipal building that could have been Buckingham Palace (except that we're in Germany not England) and a marvelous shopping district on the other. A weird thing about where we live is that EVERYTHING is closed on Sundays, so as we walked down this incredible shopping street all I could do was dreamily stare into the windows and hope I got the chance to return ASAP. 

All in all I'm excited to venture out and experience all Germany has to offer (:

xoxo,

Abby

P.S. Pictures to come soon! Haven't broke out the camera yet to document everything.