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Well, I'll just be putting down what I can of the trip thus far. By the looks of things I won't need a second journal entry to talk about the last days here in Europe. I'll explain at the end.

So to start things off is the flying into Iceland to change planes and go into Frankfurt Germany. [If I spelled the city wrong, whoops.] Well, it was a good plan and all except... delays. Plenty of flight delay. Overall it was an additional 5hours to finally get into Europe. That is delays from flying out of Minnesota [3hours] and back out of Iceland [2hours]. The final result of the delays was us not getting to our hotel untill near midnight in German time. We took a train out of Frankfurt that was a 2and1/2 hour ride into Nurnburg where we are staying.

The next day was the 23rd. We walked over to a festival market for Christmas that Nurnburg has. It is basicly a Christmas only event when over 100 small specialty shops set up in the large market streets. Almost everything is all about Christmas, save a few shops that are more focused on just seasonal. I don't remeber how many hours we spent in the festive markets, but it was long enough to have sore feet by the time we returned to the hotel with our arms lugged down with bags. We bought around 15-20 items. I would list the things we purchased but I am not even sure of everything we got.
My parents indulged in the special cups shaped like boots. These are actuall part of a festive deal where for 2.50Euro you buy a drink, usually alcoholic but some fitting for kids, and you get to keep the boot cup. You can then take it to any of the hot drink stands for a free refill or a small extra fee for extra rum in your drink. There must have been 20 of the drink stands. It is easier to understand when you see it than to explain, if I confused anyone reading this.
Okay, onto the 24rth.
I don't remember what town we went into by train, but it was another 2and1/2 hour ride. We traveled there to go to a simillar festival of shops. Although the brochures all agreed it stay open untill 10pm, the shops were nearly all closed or in the proccess of closing when we got there at 1am. Needless to say, we spent roughly an hour there before returning to Nurnburg and the hotel.
25th Christmas.
Locked up in the hotel because everything was closed save a few places to eat. Sadly, I got sick the night before and by morning was doing poorly. I basilcy slept off the entire day.
Today: the 26th.
I've been getting semi better from my affliction. It started with throbbing headache and sore throat, and a little upset stomach as well. The first to go was my grumbling gut by taking tums. This morning I finally got over the headache. My sore throat is in full swing however as I winch terrably each time I have to swallow. I've been taking medications to no avail, the most helpful is something called "Airborn" as I can swallow the natrual herb mixture easily compared to everything else. The medication is a tablet you dissovle in water for a mild orange taste. Definitly good as it lacks that common medicine taste that is easily despised.

Well, that being everything so far, I really doubt we will get to do much else. Tomorrow we hope I feel well enough to leave the hotel for more than the two hours it took to eat dinner. If I am better, we plan to see in theater Three Musketeers.
The only other planned event is staying an extra night in Iceland. We will be going to Blue Lagoon hotsprings in Iceland. If I am not better by then, it should do wonders for my throat.

.... and I think that is it... Who's confused? Because I just plugged that out quickly xD