Last week Nathan and I went to Germany for 4 days to meet up with our friend. This time we would also have another friend joining us. It was a really fun and well worth the travel
The entire first day was used for travel. We started by taking a 7h bus to Frankfurt and then a 30 min train to Aschaffenburg where our friend would pick us up with her car.
On Friday our plans were to pick up our friend from the airport and then head into the city for some sightseeing. We had trouble finding him cause he went out in the departure section instead of the arrivals area. After we found him it was off to Frankfurt City for some shopping instead of sightseeing cause it was a rainy day. We walked around the shopping area and i got myself a new pair of gaming headphones, a power bank and some medicine for Nathan since he was ill. When it was time to get dinner we were planning on going for conveyer belt sushi, but the two places that was located in the city was either closed down or closed. In the end we found a restaurant that served Pokebowls. We all made our own bowls with our decided protein, mix, sauce and topping. The place was small and very cute. After dinner we just headed home and spent the rest of the evening gaming and hanging out.
Saturday was the most exciting day. We drove into one of the neighboring city cause we were going to do “escape room”. Our theme was Thanos and our mission was to find all the infinity stones and save the universe. We had 60 min and it took us 58 of them to solve it. It was really fun, but we ended up getting way too many hints which kinda ruined the whole figuring out experience. We later were told that the people who worked there had just started up and that this was a new project for all of them. Which was the reason why they were helping us a lot. They wanted to make sure that everything went smoothly. With some time and more experience they have potential to become a really good business. If you are ever in that city and want to do something fun with friends definitely check them out.
After the escape room we had a couple of hours before dinner. We decided to go to a bar to get some drinks. I had my first “Cubra Libre” and it was stronger than I had imagine, but it tasted really good ^^ Our reservation at the “all you can eat” place was at 7.30 pm which meant that we had a lot of time to kill. We decided to head over there and just played “code names” in the car. The restaurant was super crowded this day. We even had to wait to get seated. When we finally got our table we headed towards where the food was. They had everything from salads, sushi, soups etc… Our friend said that they way people did it was that they first choose their raw meat that they want the kitchen to prepare for them and in the meanwhile you just pick something else to eat. I just had to try the sushi and for my main course I had some lamb cutlets and meat strips together with some broccoli and potatoes. I was very satisficed with my food, but Nathan wasn’t as fortunate. His main course was seafood and apparently his dish was half warm, half cold and his mussels weren’t good at all. Our friend told us that it was usually not that bad and that this was the werst experience she has had which was a bit unfortunate, but nothing to do about it. After we arrived back we again just chilled and played some vr.
On Sunday we just drove to the train station, had a quick breakfast at MacDonalds before heading towards home. Our friend joined us on the bus this time cause he was flying out from Brussels instead of Frankfurt the next day, which meant that he would be staying with me and Nathan for the night. On our way home with the bus something funny happend. After we had left one of the stops I looked out the window and saw a guy running after the bus. First i thought that it was a friend of one of the passengers, but it turned out to actually be one of the passengers. He had gotten off to do something and then missed the buss while it was driving away. Thankfully the driver saw him too and found a place to park while he got on. I have only seen this in movies so it was kinda fun to see it happend in real life.
When we were back in Antwerp we decide to eat out on one of our ramen places. Since Nathan was still feeling under the weather we went to Wagamama cause it was closer to the central station. They had some new items on the menu as well. I had the ramen with duck gyoza (dumplings). After our dinner we just headed home and played some league with our friends.
That was it for our mini vacation. Despite it not going totally as planned we all had a lot of fun. I think the highlight of the trip was the escape room and the pokebowl place. It was also really great meeting the dogs again.
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