Tag Zwei.

For all of you like myself who are not fluent in duetsch, tag zwei is German for day two. Which is basically a copout on a title since creativeness failed me at this moment. In my defense the adventures of the Familie McGrath today were far less exciting than those of yesterday. No fests were involved today, no trains, no fish, no afternoon walks through town, but no worries there's always beer involved (we are in Germay after all). I am quickly learning that I need to be far more conscious about bringing a camera with me everywhere so that I can not only document this trip through words, but accompany those words with pictures. Sadly I have not taken much action on this realization as of yet.

Tag zwei took us on a wonderful tour of the in processing procedures and their accompanying building here on Panzer Kaserne. I was very pleasantly surprised by the fact that the inside of these building were a lot more visually stimulating than the typical white and beige of many other military installations. If I remember correctly one of the building featured bright blue on the staircase (for you military people out there you fully understand my amazement in the appearance of color). A really cool thing about Panzer Kaserne is that it has been a German tank base since the 1930's - yes that means Nazi tanks - so many of the buildings, the outsides at least, are original to the 1930's. Adds a neat architectural element to the base.

Hours of in processing was followed by surfing the internet at the house because we get only 2 english television stations and hulu doesn't work in Germany, so Facebook and I were very good friends this afternoon.

Dinner was eaten with the same friends as yesterday (a last stitch effort to spend as much time together as possible before they ship out) at a restaurant that looked like a typical German place but served some really yummy Italian food. Didn't make much sense to me but hey, don't judge a book by it's cover. I also got my first taste of Germans playing drinking games. These particular Germans were rather aged and rather loud. Definitely interesting to watch.

Maybe tomorrow I'll remember to take pictures to share (:

xoxo,
Abby