Hunger overtook my need for sleep! I headed downstairs to see if I could grab a quick bite and they told me there were sandwhich type shops located in the train station about 2 blocks away - so I headed to the train station. I found a McDonalds and Burger King - thank goodness, along with several German sandwhich and bakery shops. They looked great but I went for the safe food because I wasn't sure if my stomach could handle all the rich deli meats. Anyhow, I decided on Burger King and one big cream cheese pastry - everyone knows that the Germans have great pastries and I can now attest that they do! I scarffed down my food and headed back to the hotel for my long awaited nap.
After waking up from my 2 hour nap, I found out there was an Arts fest taking place on the river Main. As it turned out, the river was only about 2 blocks from my hotel, so I head out. Wow...I think the entire city of Frankfurt was there. People were on both sides of the river as far as you could see and all over the bridges. Anyhow, it was interesting because everything is so different; money (it's Euros here and kind of expensive at $1.47 to our $1.oo), language, music, and their culture. I walked around for a few hours and then decided I was 'done!' for the day. I went back to the hotel and in bed by 9:30 pm.
Sleeping turned out to be more difficult than I expected. Around 11 pm I about jumped out of my skin when the fireworks started going off near the hotel celebrating the end of the Arts fest. I made it through that and fell right back to sleep only to be woken up by the TV turning itself on at 1 am. That did me in! I was not able to fall back to sleep the rest of the night. In addition to this, Ed was in the middle of FINALLY closing the big 'deal'. This is what we've been waiting on for the last two years. This was something I wanted to celebrate with him. Unfortunately, 'The End' turned out not to be the big celebration we had hoped for. AT&T finally signed the deal at 1:55 am pst and Oracle did not receive it by 2:00 am pst which means the deal might not book in Q1...very bad for Oracle and a disappointment for Ed. As of today, he still doesn't know which quarter the deal will book in but hey, the deal is DONE! As my dad would say ' he turned the elephant'! Regardless of when the deal books, we can now begin planning our lives together and we're both very excited about that.
Valerie gets in tomorrow from San Diego, and it will be nice to have someone to hang out with...someone who speaks English. We'll go splorin together. We want to see the castles.
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