Hurry up and wait

Long day on Friday getting accross Germany from Prague to Kaiserslautern. It became apparent that reservations are actually only really necessary on trains headed into Berlin, and then probably only on the weekends. It was Friday afternoon when we first headed to Berlin, and it was Friday a week later when were leaving Prague. Our train was ultimately headed back to Berlin; we got off it at Dresden, but most of the seats were reserved from dresden to Berlin, but from Dresden to Hamburg (our second train's final destination) not so much. I think all the reservations (Berlin to Prague, Prague to Dresden, and Dresden to Kaiserslautern) only ended up costing 11 Euros (about 15 dollars)-- worth it, I think, for not having to worry about having to stand.

We are now waiting on a flight home. We're actually wating on a particular flight; the plane has had maintenance problems, but its home is our home and we figure it has to go there eventually, so we wait. The alternative is to fly into Delaware and then rent a car to get home. I'd rather hang out here and watch movies. without a rental car it's hard to get very far, and we've both been so tired we've been sleeping a lot, but we went to see Ratatouille last night and Stardust tonight, and I finally finished Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence that I've been carrying around with me since we left home. In fact I stopped by the terminal today and bookswapped it out for Greg Iles Turning Angel--never heard of Iles, but he seems kind of Da Vinci code-esque.