Ok, not sure I have that totally correct, but it means “The key is in the dog.”  And yes, I heard that on German television last night.  We spent some time sort-of learning German using the Rosetta Stone DVD.  We really like the classes, it’s fun learning and the software is very good, IMO.  So after quite a few weeks, we take off on this trip.  And of course, we are not at all equipped to speak much less understand any practical German at all.  Fortunately, for us, just about everyone here speaks excellent English.  We found exceptions of course.  The woman that sold us the cell phone, and the woman who set the menus to English for us, did not speak all that well.  And the guy behind the counter at Starbuck’s (yeah, such Americans!) was put out to have to speak English at all.  But everyone else has been easy to converse with and very friendly.  It’s grey and rainy here, still, but the people are very nice and helpful, so it doesn’t seem as dreary as it looks.

So anyway, back to the dog… The TV was on and they were advertizing some kind of animal hospital show.  Mostly I didn’t understand a word they were saying until I heard a man excitedly say “Die Schüssel ist im der Hund!”  I look up and sure enough they were showing a x-ray of a dog, with a key in its stomach.  Awesome!  Well, not for der Hund.   (BTW, you capitalize all nouns in German.)

So, trip update:  We went to bed early last night, slept about nine hours and still got up fairly early.  Had breakfast in the hotel.  Things sure are expensive here!   The buffet breakfast is 22 euros each.  At 22 dollars it would have been pricey.  Multiply by 1.65…. ouch.  After that we went for a long-ish walk in the rain/mist down the KoningStrasse (sp?) which is basically a pedestrian mall.  Bought some chocolate at a store along the way and shot some photos.  I’ll put a few up on SmugMug when I get a few minutes. 

We ate lunch standing up, a sandwich (belegte Brotes, if I remember correctly) that was not very good and a pretzel that was better.  Now we’re chilling out in the hotel before we walk out for dinner in a little while.