Camping in Frankfurt and Mainz! aka July 29-31

Ok, so this weekend for sure was amazing!!!!!!! So thursday night after everything, I called my mommy, cried for a couple of hours, fell asleep and had no dreams for once... and then I woke up strangely at peace. I think I knew being with Dillon deep down wasn't right. Because I'm oddly fine for everything that has happened. Which could also have something to do with the fact that I have still not returned to America, but regardless. Even last summer in Japan with the month prior to leaving and like the first month or so I was there, I was a complete emotional wreck and so incredibly hurt. But this time it was like two days, and I was doing ok. Or maybe I just was so used to him hurting me that I kind of became a little more hard hearted. Whatever the reason. I was fine, and I had SUCH an amazing day at the SAS with my kids. We watched All Dogs go to Heaven with them, which was a little bit sad and I was kind of depressed lol. But because the movie was sad. Emily and I and Ms. Mary Beth for sure teared up. Aiden comes up to me sometime during the day, and pointed his fingers like two guns, nodded his head at me and said, touche. Omg, it was one of the cutest things ever. I like died a little bit inside because it was so cute. So all day long, all of us were doing that. And I feel like in general I was just more grateful for my kids than I have been during this trip. I'm not going to like blame dillon for this, but he sure dictated a lot of my moods like when he wouldn't call or get on skype or answer his phone for days....maybe that should have been a sign. hmm. Anyways. After work, Mike took Emily and I to the Kelly hotel, and we changed and packed and got ready for Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, we went to this like techno club to dance and stuff. Before like a certain time it was free, so we did that and got a beer and danced for a long time. Germans dance really differently than Americans, which isn't exactly a bad thing. In America, everyone is like all up on eachother and it can get kind of awk and stuff, and Everyone dances with anyone. At this techno club, everyone was juts in their own little bubble bopping around. Like no one was touching unless there was like two people actually dancing together. It was kind of cool. Another different thing was that because all the music was techno, there was like no words to sing to. I guess I never really noticed that a lot of what I enjoy about going out and dancing with friends is that I get to sing along with it. But it was pretty easy to get used to and Emily Mike and I had a blast. That night we slept in the car in the parking lot right next to the club. It is probably one of the most questionable things I have ever done, but we had Mr. Mike, so it wasn't like super dangerous or anything. We woke up the next morning at like nine or so. Then we got ready for the day at a bathroom in a McDonalds in Downtown Frankfurt and explored Frankfurt. It is a pretty cool city. We found this odd little discount store, and then there was like this shop that had traditional German Dresses. SOOOO cool. Emily and I tried them on and fell in love so much that we couldn't help but buy them even though they were way expensive. We also ran into another Gay or Lesbian fest like what we saw in Munich. It was pretty funny, and a little awk. After all of this, we ended up driving to Mainz and finding where we were going that night. We were going to a foam party, which Emily and Mike surprised me with. So we found where that was going to be, and then sat in the car and played cars and watch Across the Universe. Just doing nothing like that was a lot of fun. Its the first time I've done that really since being in Germany. Then we changed into comfy clothes and got ready to go the party. OK. So Emily and I both put swimming suits under like comfortable clothes, Mike... and every other German there wore really nice clothes and the girls wore dresses and heels. Emily and I were like Eff that... we are going to get all nasty. Why would we want to be in really nice clothes! At the party, it was absolutely sik. Like the cooolest thing I've ever seen or done probably ever. The party was like in this ice rink where there was no ice, and then on the ceiling there was this like machine that let out foam , and it was like bubbles everywhere up to my shoulders most places, and in the middle up above my head. Its just crazy. We all danced for EVER in all the bubbles and everything. And at this party there was popular music that I was familiar with, so we were all singing along with it and like dancing. It was sooo so so so much fun. When we were done that night we like changed into dry clothes and were so tired we passed right out. Unfortunately, I had trouble sleeping. My arthritic hands can only go for so long with sleeping in the back of the car. Oh yes, we slept in the back of a car again that night right outside the building the party was in. But we ended up sleeping in until like noon, so it was all good. The next day we woke up, packed up, and headed back to Stuttgart. When we got there we went to Mike's house and went on a bike ride. I haven't ridden a bike for like years and years and years, so I was a little bit scared! but it was really fun. It was nice not to have to wear a helmet like I would in Washington. I don't enjoy hat hair. We brought Mike's dog Lucky along with us, and he is this like huge golden retriever. He got into the mud and ended up rubbing mud all over the back of my shirt bleh!!!! Then Mike, Emily, and I watched 2012 while we ate dinner and stuff. i love Mike's mom. She is so sweet. She is like Polish, so she has the coolest accent, and she kept offering us like water, tea, cake, etc. So so sweet. Well, that was the end of the trip. It was like exactly what I needed, and I had SUCH a blast.