Wordless Wednesday LinkUp // This is a snow day in Southern Arkansas...

This is considered snow in southern Arkansas.

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My "Getting Back Home" Adventure, aka. the 400€ Cab Ride story

Yesterday's "Wordless Wednesday" post was only a hint. Today I want to tell you the whole story! You guys might remember I went on a little vacation to Trier last week, to visit family and friends. I had an awesome time up there, and I will definitely share some more about my hikes on here.

I went there Tuesday, and I had a train ticket to go back home to Fürth that Sunday. Since you can't be sure the "Deutsche Bahn" train company is always on time, I was checking my app while waiting on the first train in Trier. Shocker: I would have to change trains in a city called Koblenz, but the ICE train I was supposed to take to Nuremberg appeared as "Cancelled".

I called my brother, so he could look up some more info about this. FYI: Since I wanted to go to the basketball game of my all time fave German team "TBB Trier", I booked a train ticket for a pretty late train. It was supposed to leave Trier at 7:13pm, I would have had 10 minutes to change trains in Koblenz to take the ICE train to Nuremberg at 8:48pm. So, this didn't happen.

The first train arrived on time. What a surprise! But I got more and more bad news. The ICE train broke (that's what they wrote on the internet). So they had to get another one to replace it. This replacement train left 70 mins late.
AND: Instead of going to Nuremberg, this freaking replacement train would only go to Frankfurt.
Means: I would be stuck in Frankfurt over night.

After arriving in Koblenz, the lady at the Information gave me 2 choices:

1. going back to Trier for free and stay another night with my family
2. going to Frankfurt, stay at a hotel for the night, and go home the next day

Since the "Deutsche Bahn" has to pay if your train is late, plus they have to pay a hotel room if you are stuck, I called my favorite hotel in Frankfurt to book a room for that night. I was REALLY pissed since I wanted to get home and watch the Pro Bowl. I was tired. I missed M.

The stupid train really arrived in Koblenz 70 minutes late. I was at the track all the time. Cold, freezing cold... Ugh.

All of a sudden there was an announcement: All passengers who were supposed to go to Nuremberg should go to the service center at the train station in Frankfurt as soon as we arrive. I was already sure I would be stuck until the next day, so I thought they might just want to give us some vouchers for food and stuff.
But: man was I wrong!

We arrived in Frankfurt, and a group of 20 people made their way to the service center. It seemed as if they were already expecting us: There were more people there with headsets, yelling. It all really felt like a bazaar in the middle east.
It turned out the guys with the head sets where working for taxi companies. As soon as they heard one of the main connections was cancelled, they went buck wild and tried to get all the passengers. Since there was a cab going to Nuremberg, and I REALLY wanted to go home, I decided to join them. We went outside in the pouring rain, put our luggage in the cab, and started out little adventure.

I said it was raining in Frankfurt. As soon as we left the city limits, the rain turned into snow. HEAVY snow. You guys in the states would call it a Blizzard. Winter Storm. Apokalypse. The Autobahn was full of snow, stranded trucks, Police cars, accidents... It was pure horror! We didn't see one snowplow on the whole trip! And the Autobahn A3 is definitely one of the main highways in Germany. It's ridiculous!!!

Our cab driver was a real trooper. He kept driving... Even though we slipped. It was freaking dangerous! Usually the ride would be about 2 hours. It took us almost 4 hours. I arrived at home at 3:30am Monday morning.

The whole trip came up to around 400€ (around $550). I have never seen 3 digits on a taximeter before!!

Since we had a voucher, we didn't have to pay. And instead of kicking us out of the cab at the main train station in Nuremberg, the cab driver brought each and every one of us home!

I was still so nervous, I couldn't go to sleep right away. Since my phone battery died during this trip, I plugged the charger, and skyped M to let him know I made it safe. He was relieved! Why is it that cellphone batteries always die when you need your phone the most???

To sum it up: This trip was one of the scariest things I have experienced so far. I had stomach cramps cause I was so stressed and scared. I kept praying to God. I asked him to get us all home safe.

God bless this cab driver. Seriously!

And I have learned my lesson:
Next time I will definitely just enjoy a night at a hotel instead of risking my life only to sleep in my own bed!

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My 400€ cab ride home... stay tuned to read more about this scary adventure. 

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Ugh... // More white

This up there is the view from my kitchen window this morning. And below is my bedroom window. Covered by about 5 inches of snow. The last pic is my current view from the office. White. Snow. Tons of snow. I am seriously sick of snow. I don´t want winter anymore! I want green , flowers, blue sky, SUN!

 

 

I want to wear my summer dresses. My flip flops! I miss my freckles!
Oh please... can summer please arrive soon? :o(

 

Anyone else sick of snow? Or is it just me hatin?

It's oh so frosty

Good morning peeps!

See above picture? That was my view this morning when I had my first gallon of coffee... Snow. Lots of it.

Before Christmas and around Christmas: I LOVE SNOW! But after having a Christmas in the 60's F this year, I was and am more than ready for spring.

Flowers. Birds. Colors.

I'm sick of winter! And moving M's stuff out of his apartment this Saturday (yay, we are getting rid of the man cave!!) will be a messy pain in the butt as well I guess. Oh well...

How`s the weather in your neck of the woods? (Readers on the southern  hemisphere, please don't make me go jealous now...)

Snow! // Christmas-Decoration? Check!

This morning I woke up, and it was snowing like crazy! I got out of bed, kept jumping up and down, clapping my hands, going all crazy...Ummmm... what of course woke up M as well, who was up waaaaay past midnight last night. But seeing me happy made him happy as well, I guess. Even though he´s not a "Snow Person". So he went to the kitchen to make some coffee while I stayed at the window, cheering.

M is not a "Christmas Person" as well, as he keeps mentioning. Well: You picked the wrong woman then :oD! I LOVE Christmas! So of course I started decorating right away after Thanksgiving was over. Our tree is decorated red, white, and blue. I´ve already posted a picture on Instagram a couple of days ago. I think it looks nice!

Did you guys unbox your Christmas decoration already as well? In Germany most people put up the tree very late, around the 23rd of December. That´s way to late for me! I want to spend as much time as possible surrounded by Christmas stuff.

Did it snow in your part of the woods as well? Now, as I´m having my lunch break, most of it is gone already. I just tweeted a picture... You are not following me on Twitter yet? Geez! Go ahead and change that! >>CLICK!<<

I hope I can leave the office around 6PM today. My sis made an "Eierlikörkuchen" - ummm hard to translate. It´s something like egg nog. In cake form. Pure awesomeness!
Plus my Bible class starts at 7. I´ve already missed last week, so I want to make sure to go there again today. We are in Matthew, chapter 7.

Oh - I teamed up with another awesome etsy store, so there is going to be another giveaway next! Ain´t that cool? Make sure to check back!

And don´t forget to purchase your ad for December/January! I have a 40% discount on all ad spaces right now. Since I use "Passionfruit Ads" it´s really easy and PayPal is a save payment. Just enter "GlassesUSA" as a promo code during checkout!

Have a lovely day!
xoxo
Anni