Frankfurt to Munich in ICE

We arrived in Munich around 6:00 am, after a red eye from Addis Ababa, and we were scheduled for the 8:37 train in the morning. We bought first class tix, which landed us in the Deutsche Bahn lounge ahead of time enjoying some soda water an wifi. We also picked up a delicious salami sandwich to split (at 7:00 in the morning), which was absolute heaven. I will proudly not fit into my clothes at the end of this trip.

We have a small history in Frankfurt.. Before Paul and I were married, we took a trip to Portugal with his parents, and we transferred through this German mega hub. While there, (for all of two hours) Paul fell in love with frankfurters (the food, not the peeps; his singular sentence in German is: "frankfurter bitte"), and he also realized that his most favorite candy in the world, Haribo gummy bears, are German. He only came to this realization because as we are sitting in the Lufthansa lounge watching the planes go by we, spotted a Haribo-sponsored A340. The whole plane was a gigantic Gummy Bear package. We both got really excited about this at the time... Maybe it was circumstance, as Paul had just filled up a paper cup in the lounge with these delectable ursus gummius, maybe it was blossoming love.... "thank-you" (yes, THAT Portugal trip), or perhaps, simply jetlag, but we were totally giddy to see that plane.

Fast forward to this morning... We get on the train and into our seats.. Paul goes to get us a drink - him Coca Cola, me champagne, and we start to relax and watch the scenery... 2/3rds into the ride the train steward walks by with a basket of bite-size bags of..... HARIBooooooo!!!

The train itself is very well put together, and our ride, with champagne, sausages, little Greek flatbread and a tour of Germany from North to South at high speed was terrific!

Great start to a fun Christmas trip!

Look how happy my husband is!