Shopping in Germany and so much more

Today Danny and I went to the grocery store because our food supply was seriously lacking. We were down to enough bread for 3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. 2 cans of Ravioli and 1 cup of noodles. All to last us until Monday. Yeah we needed to go shopping. There is a small small market around the corner from us, so we decided to walk down there.
Well in Germany they have different customs. A lot of shops close weekdays 1-3 pm. Almost like a siesta but no one sleeps. They just close down. It's called Quiet Time. And we've learned that a lot of people don't answer their phone during this time either. The Air Force even pays a fine when they have planes fly in past 10:00pm. They are always closed Sundays. And a lot of shops close early on Saturdays. Which is what happened when we walked to this small market.
So we needed to go to the bank and get more Euros anyways. Hardly anybody accepts debit cards, unless they're a fairly big store. And that's about a 10 minutes away from our hotel. And there is a fairly big grocery store about 5 minutes away from that. So we decided to go shopping there. It is definitely a cultural shock shopping for food in a store you don't know the language. Some things are fairly easy. Like chocolate and fruit! Other things like lunch meat, totally different story. We are only fairly certain the meat we bought is turkey. I'm a little hesitant to try it :P They had a lot of scary looking meat there as well. Bread here is different than the bread at home. They do a lot of loaves like on Beauty and the Beast, at the beginning when Belle is shopping. But they did have a small section of bread that looks American. Minus the heels. Finally someone who understands that the heels are not important and generally get thrown out. Now I don't have to feel like I'm wasting food. It was also kind of funny to see a whole section about the size of the Electronic section at Wal-Mart full of wine. All different kinds of wine. And when you check out, they don't have the normal paper or plastic bags like at home. They have a slightly heavier duty plastic bag that you must pay for. It was about 10cents per bag. I'm not entirely sure on the custom to reusing the bags yet. But I plan on looking into that.
They believe in a lot of recycling here. We are forbidden to throw away any glass. And when we drive to a glass recycling bin we must then seperate by color. I think the dogs love living here, because it is a law that they can not be in their kennels more than 2 hours at a time. And it is strongly encouraged to take your dogs for long walks. We have tried to abide by the walking rule as much as we can. Somedays are definitely easier than others, but we're trying.