Finally, after weeks of being on the waiting list with T-Mobile our iPhone 3Gs finally arrived. The sales clerk called us last night and left a message that one of our phones is ready for pickup, so we headed out the door early this morning to go to Vaihingen. We decided that it was best to take public transportation today because after we got the phones we were going to go to the Ludwigsburg Castle.

Our adventure started as we walked to the main street in town to get some breakfast at the Mörel Bäkerie then we walked to the Gärtringen bahnhof (train station) to get on the S1 toward Plochingen. It was a nice 20 minute ride to the Vaihingen bahnhof where we got off to walk to the SchwabenGalerie, a mall where the T-Mobile store is. When we got there the clerk who called us last night gave us really good news, she said that instead of just one phone she had two for us because a guy on the list before us wasn’t able to pick up his phone. Yay me! I get my iPhone too!

Since both of us got our iPhones we decided to walk around the mall and then have some lunch and head back home to play with our phones. Yes, we planned to go to the castle but we were too excited to play with our new toys.

The iPhone 3G is really easy to install on the computer, all we had to do was plug it in and sync it up with our iTunes accounts for activation and registration. Simple. Of course, I was too excited I downloaded a few applications from the iTunes App Store that I already messed up my iPhone. I think I made it do too much at once that it said “oh hell no!” So now, for the past two hours I’ve been waiting for iTunes to restore my iPhone to its original settings. Yes, this is why I am writing this blog to tell the world that I have my iPhone while I wait for it to restore. So far, I’m not impressed WTF is going on with it taking forever and a day to restore? And why in the hell did it crap out after trying to install three applications? I was very impressed at the simplicity of its installation, activation, and registration, but this restore thing is really pissing me off!!! I’m done writing this post and it’s still “Verifying iPhone Software.” WTF!

I went to the discussion boards to see what others have done with this problem but I don’t see an answer! Arghh! I posted a question on one of the blogs (iPhone disasters averted: How to use recovery mode), hopefully I get an answer.