Since when was Texas it's own country-August 2nd, 2012

Today we slept in a bit, but decided to try and take a double decker bus tour where we could get off and on whenever we wanted. We walked again to the Green line tour place and asked about the tours and the guy rushed us to get to the next street becasue one was leaving. The tour guide was a bit grumpy to us and was not impressed that we were holding everyone up, when it only took about 5 minutes for each of us to pay and board. Once aboard we started driving and the tour guide was talking, I caught him say that the U.S. was boardered by 3 countries, Canada, Mexico and Texas. We all looked at each other and were like since when did Texas become its own country? At one of the stops we got off and we were in the City Centre, where there are many shops so we did some shopping and spent quite a bit of time there. While walking around we saw some protestors and weren't sure what they were protesting, but we later found out that they were protesting their troops being in Egypt..they didnt want them there. We finally made our way back and took a little nap before we made our way to Mario's again. He promised to make us a huge real German meal. Mario is originally from Bulgaria and was in Frankfurt because his daughter is sick. He started the meal by making us a Bulgarian salad that was made of cut up cucumbers and tomatoes topped with cheese. It was the best cheese in the world! It just melted in your mouth! We next had a schnitzel and fries, which is basically deep fat fried pork. We then proceeded to have a real Bratwurst, which I surprisingly found delicious. I normally don't like brats, so it was a surprise. Mario wasn't going to charge us, but we felt we owed him something for slaving away to make us this huge meal. So he came out with the bill and we all almost died because it was 218 Euros! We were scrounging for money to complete the bill and when we finally did we said our goodbyes to Mario and left. We went home and did some packing and decided to go and have one last drink together in Germany before leaving. We made it home at a decent time because we had to leave early to fly out in the morning.