Frankfurt part II

I don't plan on updating this thing everyday, but right now I have time and energy so I figured I might as well.

Jet lag sucks. A lot. I wandered around the old part of Frankfurt yesterday for a couple hours. Its a pretty cool city and since the weather was sunny, there were plenty of places to sit and have a Kaffee. I walked back to my room and passed out at 5pm. Woke up at midnight wide awake. Watched Freakazoid! for an hour (left the DVD in my laptop apparently):

This is the best show ever made.

Anyways, so I managed to fall back to sleep, but only for a few hours. At about 5am, my body finally declared that it was done sleeping. Of course to me it felt like 10pm at night so I'm still all kinds of confused. I got up and saw that the sun was soon to be creeping up so I went running. Surrounding the old part of town "Altstadt" is a strip of pedestrian park space. Its really nice considering its in the middle of a city as a nice little 5 mile loop if you connect on the bridges that cross the rivers. Its really pretty in the morning.

I ran on this :)

Of course the loop is best traversed if you know your way around...which I do not. I was lost for what felt like an eternity. Ended up at the zoo. Yay for adventures. Here is a map of the route I did (in red) with the extra part I did while panicked and lost (in green).

Additionally, since it was so early and right now is not the tourist season, much of the run seemed as though I was running through the set of the film 28 Days Later. Literally went through entire plazas and stuff without seeing a soul.

Got back to the hostel at around 8 in the morning when the all you can eat breakfast tends to pick up. Ended up meeting three guys from Ecuador who were passing through on their way to Mainz for the German version of Mardi Gras. I had no idea that it even existed. I won't be seeing too much of it unfortunately since it begins the day after I get into Heidelberg (tomorrow?).

In other news, I am once again exhausted (damn you messed up sleep schedule). With my room now empty (my roommates peaced out), I am gonna take an awesome nap on the bottom bunk. AWWWw YEEEAAAHHH. Seriously though, when you're a full-sized man getting on top of one of these tiny beds, you gotta hope the person below is cool with their potential impending doom.

Lastly, I just found out that Salvador Dali's lobster phone (and other art) is here in Frankfurt. Nearly lost it. What a great day and it isn't even half over. Tomorrow I head out to Heidelberg to meet Frau and Heir Schwarzer. With that, I leave you with this lovely art courtesy of Dali.