Hannover and the Pony Flu!

We got up at about 0900, Mom's pony flu returned, and her right eye was red, swollen and weeping. She only wanted to crawl back in bed, but the hotel was full, and they needed our room. We sat at the computer, and developed a new plan; Operation Hannover.

Our plan was to find a hotel on the outskirts, and use it as our base for the next three days. We're planning on seeing the the Autostadt at Wolfsburg. We found the Radisson Blu, in an industrial area, very, very close to the biggest convention center we have ever seen. We got a great deal, because they were basically empty on the weekends, free breakfast, free internet, and free parking included.

We left Hamburg at 1130, fired up the GPS, and pointed the Insight towards Hannover. The countryside changed a bit, with large freshly plowed fields, surrounded by leafless tress.

We were searching for a McCafe, because we had been told that they had free internet. This proved not to be the case, and we decided just to wait until we checked into the hotel before we used the internet. Besides, everybody at home was asleep.

As we headed in to the parking lot, we saw a very good omen, an olive green VW Thing pulled up and parked. The McDonald's here are always packed with people, just like this one. Lucky for us, a couple left the comfy McCafe chairs and we sat down. Mom took a picture of the food that we had, as she always does.

Next, on to Hannover. We drove by our hotel first, then decided to keep driving around. The convention area here is really interesting, with very modern architecture. It even has it's own heliport. There is small housing area next to it, where somebody has a sense of humor, regarding their satellite dish.

We drove back to the hotel, and checked in. We went up to our room, and we couldn't turn on any lights or turn on the air conditioning.. Mom then found out that the card reader inside the door was for us to put our room key in, so that we turn on the air conditioning and all of the lights.

Jack played around on the internet for a while, while we downloaded our pictures, then we headed down to the restaurant downstairs in the hotel for dinner. Jack had, you'll never guess, a hamburger and fries, while Mom had a Caesar salad with chicken and bacon slices. Which turned out to be anchovy slices when she held our table candle next to it. We shared a bottle of mineral water, and had cappuccinos and cookies for dessert.

We found that there may be a place in Bueckeburg, about an hour away from Hannover, which has Royal Lipizzaner like horse shows, we are going to try to check it out tomorrow.