Well, we finally arrived in Dusseldorf on Saturday after a very "exciting" adventure flying standby once again. We started in Denver, where east coast weather & mechanical problems sent 3 flights back to the Denver airport and consequently placed those passengers on the standby list ahead of us. After 12 hours, 2 coffees, and 1 ice cream stop -- we were able to catch a flight to Atlanta. However, the flight for Dusseldorf that day departed at 4:30pm and we arrived at 10:30pm. So we grabbed a room at a hotel just down the road and tried to catch some sleep. Unfortunately, the weather had delayed many flights that day and the airport was still trying to catch-up until probably 2am. Our luck was much better the following day and we were able to catch the flight to Dusseldorf. We checked into our hotel at 7am local time and grabbed a quick bite of breakfast. The plan was to take a short nap and then go see some of the city sites . . . . 5 hours later . . . well, by now it was dinner time, so we went for a walk and found the main train station which had lots of food stands and bakeries inside to choose food from. I don't know if Dave & I mentioned it last year, but we absolutely LOVE German bakeries! So we ingested about as many carbs asa human can possibly stand in one meal and headed back to the room . . . Ok, so maybe we had a little room left, so we grabbed some beer on the way. When in Rome! (I mean Germany)
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