Today was relatively uneventful, save for a fun incident this morning with my cell phone. I am using now a german cell phone, and the charger I had for it wasn't working. I changed out the SIM card and put it in the other cell phone that I brought (not knowing if I'd be able to find a working charger), which worked as a backup until I got another charger. Luckily the Thiermeiers had one that worked, so that was all good. However, when I put the SIM card back into the german cell phone, it didn't want to connect to the network (it just said "offline")... I looked through all of the menus to try to find something about getting it to reconnect, but to no avail. Finally after restarting it a few times and messing with the options, I got it to work. That was a relief.
Some of the time while I'm here in germany, I plan to travel around some (not just spend the entire time in berlin). The time has come for the first of these little side trips: Groningen, Netherlands.
Well, not quite...I don't actually leave for another week, but I did buy my train tickets today! I'm going to be taking the train early sunday from berlin, and will arrive in Groningen about 4:30 in the afternoon. The price itself roundtrip was actually rather affordable as well, only about 90 euros (normally tickets are about 200 euros, but there was a special discount for whatever reason).
I'm going to Groningen to meet my uncle, who is there for a conference. He'll be busy most of the time, but at least that gives me a base of operations to explore the city, and possibly to elsewhere (amsterdam is only 2 hours away, etc). I'll be there for three days total.
