Burger in k-town

Wow! We found a diner in Kaiserslautern that really does a good job at the look of a 50's American diner. The menu is mostly in German, but the names of most of the plates are in English and some of the ingredients are in Spanish i.e. Chili con carne.

The food was crazy too! I got a 332g burger, which I figured to be 1/2 to 2/3 lb (I was really hungry and J was too after a morning lost to searching for flea markets). Yeah, it was much closer to a full pound burger, and was crazy good. We had their cheese fries which were also insanely good too. I had a shake for dessert which was lighter than I expected and J had a chocolate cake which was way more frosting than cake. Needless to say, we didn't finish the cake nor the fries that came with my burger, nor the wrap J ordered. She didn't like the sauce they put in it. In her defense, the tomatoes I had with my burger were so sweet it was almost like they were candied.

I know K-Borg would have loved the advertisement on all of the tables and the front door. I took a picture of it here.

In short, I was pleasantly surprised and would totally go again. It's amazing how you sometimes don't really know what the American culture is until you leave it for a while.

We later got home and watched at least 4 hours of NASA's Race to Space documentaries.  Did you know that there is presently a conspiracy theory that while the astronauts launched into earth orbit they didn't land on the moon?  While I personally don't believe it, one of the biggest pieces of evidence that I can't refute is that the landscape for multiple missions, when overlaid, are identical.  Each mission was supposed to be in a completely different locations.  Someday, I'm going to get a HUGE telescope and try to find the LEM landing gear on the face of the moon.  Truly, the only way to prove it, yet no one seems to have tried it yet.  I think I'll help R complete his observatory and that will be our first little viewing project.

That was all yesterday. Today, I played rec soccer with about 16 other service members and civilians with the army...for 3 hours. Any thoughts of my being out of shape are gone now. I kept up with all of them, was a bit quicker than most of them, but I loved how everyone consistently hustled, always had positive attitudes, were competitive but friendly...not out for blood or terribly aggressive, and played more zone positions rather than strict positions because it led to more dynamic play and more opportunities for everyone. Wow, I am way tired though. I think I'll rest for an hour or so. It is nice to be playing rec soccer again.