People actually understand me when I speak German! Who knew?

So, I don't think I'm coming back. So far, this trip has been pretty amazing. You know, all 3 days of it.
So the first two days were in Amsterdam. If I get a chance I would definitely go back there. It was really neat to just walk around the city to see all the old houses and the canals and the weird people. We visited the Rijksmuseum, where I learned quite a bit about Dutch history and saw a number of Rembrandt paintings and we also went to the Van Gogh museum, it had about 200 of his paintings. We took a '100 sights' canal cruise, but then learned that the 100 sites were 25 sites repeated in 4 languages, it was still fun though. We also went to the Anne Frank house. The walk through was really well put together, but still eerie to be there none the less.
Today we took the train into Frankfurt then rented a car and drove into Baden Baden. I say we took a train, the train we were supposed to take was broken, so we had to change trains twice, with what we learned today is definitely way too much luggage and then one the 3rd train had to stand because only half of the train was there and there were no seats left. It was a pretty awful experience.
Baden-Baden is a really nice small and quiet town out in the country. All we have done here so far is wander around through the Lichtentaller Allee and out around the city outskirts where our hotel is. Tomorrow we are going into the central part of the town to experience.... something. Ha! I only know what we are doing when we are doing it, my parents are in charge of the finding things to do, I just translate. And often not very well, but hey I'm communicating! Hopefully it'll start getting easier soon, I still sort of look like a deer in headlights when people start speaking to me in German.
Love,
Ann