I can’t believe I’m currently in Dresden!
Well the flight from ATL to Frankfurt was overall ok. The first four hours consisted of me being on edge due to the (no joke) five crying babies/toddlers in our section, but I had a good seatmate (a guy from ATL but originally from Croatia) and with each Lufthansa in-flight TV show and movie, the time slipped away. I only was about to sleep about an hour, though, which was the story for most of the group. We all stayed awake for our three-hour layover in Frankfurt, and took a quick slightly turbulent flight from Frankfurt to Dresden (about an hour). We all collectively lugged our crap up to the International Guest House (mine being the most severely overweight, at a grand total of 60 lbs for my one bag), and were surprised to find the dorms look almost exactly like the picture in the brochure! They are super compact, but very clean with nice furniture, a mini-kitchenette, and our own restroom/shower. Everyone was super tired and wanted to take naps desperately, but Dr. Hix and Dr. Jackson figured it’d be to our advantage to hold out until this evening to avoid further damaging our (non-existent) sleep pattern. We tromped around Dresden to get our street-car passes, and after a while went to our ‘welcome supper ‘ at Brauhaus am Waldschlosschen, an indoor/outdoor “beer-garden” (which leads the imagination to think wild things, it’s really just a huge restaurant that’s very highly esteemed in Dresden). We were collectively ordered a roasted beef with raisin gravy (oh yes), cabbage, and my personal favorite: kroshettes (I might have butchered that spelling, but they’re potato dumplings. You should be jealous). Some of us discovered something which has got to be pretty common, but was seemingly pretty unusual at supper: a few of us had been having phantom-turbulence feelings ever since we left the planes! It’s just the result of being on planes for twelve hours probably. In any event, we took the street-car back to our dorms and now after about 36 hours and approximately two hours of sleep (on the plane and street-car combined), I’m about to go take care of this jet lag and hit the bed!
Well the flight from ATL to Frankfurt was overall ok. The first four hours consisted of me being on edge due to the (no joke) five crying babies/toddlers in our section, but I had a good seatmate (a guy from ATL but originally from Croatia) and with each Lufthansa in-flight TV show and movie, the time slipped away. I only was about to sleep about an hour, though, which was the story for most of the group. We all stayed awake for our three-hour layover in Frankfurt, and took a quick slightly turbulent flight from Frankfurt to Dresden (about an hour). We all collectively lugged our crap up to the International Guest House (mine being the most severely overweight, at a grand total of 60 lbs for my one bag), and were surprised to find the dorms look almost exactly like the picture in the brochure! They are super compact, but very clean with nice furniture, a mini-kitchenette, and our own restroom/shower. Everyone was super tired and wanted to take naps desperately, but Dr. Hix and Dr. Jackson figured it’d be to our advantage to hold out until this evening to avoid further damaging our (non-existent) sleep pattern. We tromped around Dresden to get our street-car passes, and after a while went to our ‘welcome supper ‘ at Brauhaus am Waldschlosschen, an indoor/outdoor “beer-garden” (which leads the imagination to think wild things, it’s really just a huge restaurant that’s very highly esteemed in Dresden). We were collectively ordered a roasted beef with raisin gravy (oh yes), cabbage, and my personal favorite: kroshettes (I might have butchered that spelling, but they’re potato dumplings. You should be jealous). Some of us discovered something which has got to be pretty common, but was seemingly pretty unusual at supper: a few of us had been having phantom-turbulence feelings ever since we left the planes! It’s just the result of being on planes for twelve hours probably. In any event, we took the street-car back to our dorms and now after about 36 hours and approximately two hours of sleep (on the plane and street-car combined), I’m about to go take care of this jet lag and hit the bed!
