Sunny With A High Of 75

Stuttgart is amazing! I really enjoyed the trip with Deutsch Kompakt on Friday. I even liked the Mercedes Benz Museum despite the fact that cars are not really my thing. Everything in the Museum was just so clean, crisp, and shiny. I was not as fascinated with the cars as most people though. I was the first one to finish walking through the museum; and, unlike Chris, I came nowhere close to missing the bus.



The ballet was also nice. We saw The Taming of the Shrew. (Thankfully we didn’t see Romeo and Juliet. I fully despise that story!) Half of the time I was comparing the formations and steps to skating and thinking up choreography for synchro. Some things never change. lol. The opera house that we saw the ballet in was really nice, but I wish the refreshments hadn’t been so pricy.

Now for the REAL excitement! Yesterday Monica, Chris, Sarah and I went to Stuttgart for the last skating session of the season! I was SO excited when we got close enough to see the arena. I straight up squealed… The other people in the group seemed amused by how excited I was. I guess you have to be a skater to appreciate exactly how exciting it is to skate in Europe. When we finally got on the ice, the rink guard saw me take a picture and came over to tell me I couldn’t have a camera on the ice. LAME! *Honestly, I’m skating in GERMANY; I’m GOING to take pictures! It was no biggy… I just had to be a little more stealth about my picture taking.



After skating, we decided to go up in the Stuttgart Fernsehturm for a good view of the city. The weather was nice, but a bit cloudier than I would have liked. The booklet about Stuttgart from Deutsch Kompakt said that Stuttgart’s Fernsehturm was the first in the world! Before heading home, we stopped at a Starbucks and took a leisurely walk back to the train station.