Day 1- Frankfurt/ Mainz, Germany

This is downtown Frankfurt, Germany. It is surrounded by businesses, shops, eating places, including Subway and McDonald's.

This was the view from our hotel in Mainz, Germany.

Here is the train station in Frankfurt. The train is our main way of transportation and it is amazing how well it works. We purchased our train passes ahead of time, so we are able to get on a train and don't have to worry about getting a ticket.
Day 1

Day 1 of our trip was filled with a little site seeing and some jet lag. We arrived in Frankfurt, Germany at 6:00am local time, which was about 11:00pm, our body time. We decided not to give into jet lag and try to do some site seeing. We explored Frankfurt, which to us was very business oriented, with a cool downtown. After doing some site seeing in Frankfurt we headed to our hotel in Mainz. While we were in Mainz they were having a festival celebrating their founder, so after a nap we headed to the festival for some food, beer, and fireworks. The fireworks were set off over the river, and we had a great view from our hotel room. Since we won't be in the U.S for the 4th of July, we'll consider this our Independence Day fireworks.