Good News!

We passed our driver's license tests! Friday morning at 7:30 we went to the driving school to take our written exam, and we both passed very handily. You can only miss 9 points out of 110, and we both did better than that. Whew! What a relief.

Monday we can go to the Führerscheinstelle (the driver's license office) with our letters saying we passed the test, our passports, and our valid Connecticut driver's licenses. Then we can get our German driver's licenses. Thank goodness!

However, they will also take our Connecticut licenses away. I am disappointed because my CT license photo is the best I've ever had on my driver's license! Also, it's valid until I am 40! But apparently, there is no way to get around giving up our CT licenses. Luckily, Connecticut treats German driver's licenses purely as "out of state" licenses (I'm not sure what to make of that, exactly). However, it may be a pain when we go home to Georgia or other places in the US. We haven't been able to find out yet.

Marty says he guesses that means we'll just have to stay here longer instead.

After we took our test yesterday we celebrated by going to Wasserburg am Inn for the day. It is a really neat city about 50 km from Munich, which was hardly damaged during WW2. So the medieval and renaissance buildings there really do date from the middle ages and the renaissance. It was a fun day trip in a nice little city. Marty took the picture of me above from a bridge over the river Inn.