Detroit Rock City

This is from Pam Anderson's blog. Love that she is representin' the D so soon after marrying Kid Rock last weekend.

We spent the weekend locally and headed to a carnival in Frankfurt with our friends Tony and Jenny y Saturday. I will say this about Germans, they run their carnival rides long and rough. We were on a good spin and puke ride that lasted (I swear to God) like 15 minutes. My arm almost fell off.

The Tigers are just continuing to rock. Pudge with a walk-off homer last night was just another in the line of "they can't do it again, can they?" games. I watch nearly every game on my computer the following morning for night games and when they play day games (It's the bottom of the first right now against the Indians) they are on at 7, just like home.

We made our travel plans for later this month today. We are taking a trip to Lucerne, the French Riviera (Nice, Monte Carlo, Cannes etc.), Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Milan and Lake Como over about 10 days. The hotels that we have booked look really great and we are both pretty pumped.

The Wine Fest starts in Wiesbaden on Friday and runs for ten days. LOTS of Riesling will be going down I predict.

I got to talk to my entire family yesterday as it was the Rankin family reunion in Alpena this weekend. It felt strange to not be there. I am sure the jet-skis were getting a workout and White Pine National Golf Course was as beautiful as usual.

Just got some VERY depressing news. Wal-Mart is exiting the German market. Apparently they couldn't convince the German masses that cheap Chinese goods sold very cheaply by poorly paid individuals was the way to get everything you need. Germans don't like to buy Leberknodel at the same place they get the latest David Hasselhoff CD. Not all things American translate very well is lesson number one learned over here.

Go Tigers