Day 23 - Playground and Ticket

28.02.12 - Dienstag

Normal day of class.

Rachel and I decided to go to the Hauptbahnhof to get her ticket all squared away. After waiting in line for  a bit, the woman looked over everything and told us we had to go to Domsheide. We get there, get inline, talk to a lady and it turns out Rachel had to pay 7 euros for forgetting her ticket! I was a little flabbergasted at that, I mean a) a single ticket cots 2,35 b) she's already purchased, technically, a ticket for everyday with her Monatskarte, and c) said Monatskarte only cost 37 euros, so the fee was basically 19% of that. Boo. Anyhow, it was done, and we decided to go home.

I then realized that Rachel had boot issues and that I had passed a shoe place on one of the tramlines home, the one we weren't on of course. We transferred easily, and got off at the appropriate stop. On our way to the shoe shop, we were... distracted to say the least:

When our fun was done, we went to the shoe shop. There were a lot of nice boots for relatively cheap, but they were all winter boots and Rachel wanted multi-seasonal boots that weren't fur lined. In the store, I stumbled across something rather interesting, normally these bad boys in blue are $130 and $80 respectively in America:

"Every pair only 25,-" In a shop a few stores down, I think I found some boots that might be more to her liking. . . The store was pretty interesting and had some leather jackets that I really liked, but they were too short. I guess I'm too tall for fashion here? Or I just don't really know how it works. Maybe a bit of both.

On our way home, we passed by a very familiar logo. Ford! I was surprised to see it because I hardly saw any American cars because they are so big. Of course, this one was a little modified. If you can't tell, here's another picture for perspective. Not something you see every day or ever... in America.