So..
kid 3 and 4 and I are in Dresden... my mom went by train to see a friend for the weekend. ... she will be back Monday night.
Soooooo... last night and this morning I went with the 2 kids to church. .. The closest Orthodox church ended up being Russian, not German... what a hoot. After service this morning I decided to buy a couple of prayer ropes from the church, and I wanted to give the church a hefty donation on top of that.
I had replenished my monetary supply from my mom's stash... I had just grabbed 2 50s.
Soooo... I picked out what I wanted... but the lady at the sale table knew zero German or English. .. had to find someone to translate.... finally got the 2 things that I wanted off of the display... and I handed them a 50 (what i wamted to buy was 20 total), and told them that they could keep the change.
Well.... the translator handed the money back and said, "no, no Franks". I had tried to pay in Franks.Luckily I had a 20euro as well..... yep.... no donation for the church.
And as we drive back to our apartment, and I am wondering WHY mom mom had franks!! And didn't the French go to Euro 20 years back now.. and. .. as I am thinking how nice that I am getting the hang of city driving. .. I ....
1. try to drive into on coming traffic.
I was looking directly at the traffic light, that was GREEN, but that light meant that after crossing the intersection, I could cross the tram line because no tram was coming. It turned out that a NOT as easy to see traffic light was the one that told me when to cross the intersection.It is OK...we didn't die.
2. A bit later I started to turn down a tram line area.
So glad that the car is now PARKED!!!!!
By the way... it turns out I didn't try to hand over antique French Franks... they were current tender Swiss Franks.
Whatever....
Now we just finished going through the trash... they sort things very oddly here, and here you MUST sort.... I think we got it right... we will just try to dump it when no one is looking... that will work.
I love your posts! They're always so honest & terrifying & funny & cringe worthy & usually have a happy ending. Be safe out there Al, you're irreplaceable!
