Herring, Rats and 113mph!

Today was a hot and long day. We ate breakfast at our hotel, (herring, head cheese and other assorted things that some of us would not eat were available!) then headed out to find the tourist information center. The center was full of souvenirs and we found some cool things to bring back and use with the students including a pied piper hat, a rat puppet and even some finger puppets! Next we headed to the Internet cafe to try to check Facebook, etc. We were expecting to find a cafe with wi-fi, what we found was a creepy old man in a tech repair store. He spoke no English and since we couldn't communicate, we gave up. On to the old town part of Hameln where we did some shopping and waited and waited and waited for the musical, Rats, to start. We enjoyed the musical even if it was in German. The music was great and it is an interesting story. Years ago, children really DID disappear from Hameln and no one knows what happened to them. We also got to see the Pied Piper clock-work figure play some beautiful melodies. Unfortunately, today was one of the hottest days that we have had, it reached 33 celsius, about 90 degrees. Of course, all four of us were sitting in the blazing sun for at least 2 hours. Finally, we left Hameln and headed for Belgium. Jenna, once again, did an awesome job driving over 3 1/2 hours to reach our hotel. She broke her record on the Autobahn, 113 and she still had people passing her! Our German word/phrase of the day: Auf Wiedersehen (Goodbye) Translation Time: (please comment your best guess) stift : - )