Sunday June 29th the beginning of the end.

Sunday June 29th the beginning of the end.

Sitting on the first class train from Mannheim to Paris this morning, it’s about 10am, and we took a small regional train from Heidelberg to Mannheim, got some breakfast, a latte, peach iced tea and a shared blue berry muffin.

There’s a feeling of sadness, like this is the beginning of the end of the journey, but at the same time looking forward to it a little, looking forward to going back to English speaking places where we understand signs, and menus and people. And even past that, a feeling of going back to the country where our currency doesn’t have to be converted, and where we know where things are, and don’t need adapters and converters to plug in electronics. I can’t wait to go home and drink milk, and veg on the couch, and relax. I figure that won’t happen for a few days, we’ll get back to the states on Monday the 7th of July after a LONG day travel and hopefully just pass out, then we’ll head to work, and probably suffer through the day, and THEN we’ll get home from work and hopefully just relax… that sounds fun, that’s Tuesday, Wednesday night after work we have an auto-x board meeting, so life won’t be slow getting back into our routine at all, just jumping right back in and hopefully not being too far behind!

Aaron in his boredom figured out that our train will travel 157.5 miles per hour! Cool!