Saturday

Arrgh, it was not fun getting up this morning. We promised the japanese guys, we'd escort them to the train station, so we got up at 7:00, ate a quick breakfast and found them in the lobby. They needed to catch a train to Heidelberg at 8:34, so they were in a bit of a rush, but when I went to leave with them, I couldn't find Vaki! I looked everywhere for him and in the end, decided we'd have to leave without them, even though I didn't really know the way to the train station. But a few metres from the Hostel, he came bursting through the doors and told me he'd been looking for ME everywhere hahaha. We caught a train with them to the Hauptbahnhof and found their platform. It was a bit dejavuish finding them seats and saying goodbye to them lol.

The South Koreans were leaving that morning as well, but not til 10am we thought, so we went back to the Hostel quickly so that Vaki could pay for another night in the hostel, and then went to Woolworth to buy a few things. When we got back at 9.30, they were already gone:( We felt a bit bad about that, they must've meant they were catching a train at 10am. Oh well. They left a nice note, saying they had a good time with us, so we felt a bit better:)

Mark had just woken up, and he announced that he wanted some more games for his computer because the chess version he had, had run out of evaluations. So we went sniffing for an unsecured wireless network and ended up resting the laptop against the window of a pub to escape the rain. We downloaded a few games and then scattered because the owner of the pub kept looking through the window at us and gesturing for us to piss off, and obviously our smiles weren't enough to reassure her, because she picked up the phone and dialled a number lol. When we got back, we discovered that the games hadn't downloaded properly, so it was all in vain!

We had lunch at the hostel, which we hadn't realised existed. It's amazing value - all you can eat buffet for 5 euros. There wasn't much for me from the bainne marie, but I had a few roast potatoes and loaded my plate up with salad and beans:) Healthiest and tastiest meal I've had so far:)

Mark's girlfriend came after that, and they went away to try and download the games again, so Vaki and I went to an internet cafe. I wanted to blog, because I'd fallen behind, but I was feeling so tired that I just gave up, and gave the computer over completely to Vaki. He was chatting to his friends on Skype. All the internet cafes in Germany have webcams and headsets you can use with Skype. It's a really cheap way to stay in touch with people when you're far away, when you consider that you can find quite a few internet cafes for 1 euro ($1.70 AUD) per hour.

I was so tired by that stage, that I just went straight to bed, even though it was only 7pm. Mark woke me up at 12:30 to tell me that he'd beaten Vaki in Kicker (aka Foosball) 4-3 and would I like to play chess with him now. I didn't even bother replying apart from turning to the other side of the bed and immediately went back to sleep and didn't wake up til 6am.