day 7

 Marla, Paige, and Tammy are dealing with some jet leg since they just got here so we had a nice sleep in till about 9 am then headed down for breakfast. another very german breakfast, lunch meat, hard boiled eggs, and bread. the highlight was paige putting her jam in the hard boiled egg holder, she had no clue. then we spent some timing calling taxis because the bus does not run early enough for our flights. it is very hard when the hotel doesn’t speak english and you can’t pronounce the name of the hotel to tell the taxi driver, marla just told him the hotel in the forrest and they seemed to think they knew where that was….there is a good chance this ends bad. 

then we got ready for the courts wedding, we had plenty of time but some how we’re still running late. the bus was scheduled for 2:22 pm, we are running down the hill then realized we gotta figure out what side of the rode to be on and what direction we should be going to make sure we are on the right buss. after discussion and looking at a map we crossed the road and waited…at 2:22 on the dot the bus FLEW by in the other side!!! swear words started flying, now what. we crossed the rode again, as soon as we did that the bus FLEW by on the other side. it only stops if there is someone there and both times we were on the WRONG side! wtf!!!! back to the american way, saved by the uber and we made it to the wedding right on time. 

the wedding venue was beautiful it was in the wine vineyards that over looked the Rhine River, the city is called Geisenheim, Germany. 

it was fun and interesting to attend a german wedding, everything lasts much longer and the couple is celebrated to the utmost. it started with the at 3pm ceremony, then cake, then appetizers. then at 7 we sat for dinner. dinner was a 5 course meal and delicious !! there was a few toasts and speeches in between. it was so beautiful and i am so lucky i was able to to come and watch my bestfriend get married. 

after dinner the dancing started around 10 and lasted till 2:45 am, these people can party. one of the highlights for me is they had non alcohol champagne and coke with big ice chunks and lemon. along with everyone else i was 10+ drinks deep

we had the best night hanging out with all courtney’s loved ones!! the wedding was perfect. at about 2:30 am we headed back to the hotel because we had to be up at 5 am to head to frankfurt to jump on my flight home and the marla’s to italy.