So about two weeks ago, we had to get a new toilet seat. I didn't think any bad things about the last one, but it developed this crack in it, so it was time to get a new one. I'll put in a picture...
Thursday was a holiday in Germany. I'm not sure which one it is because they have so many of them, but I got Thursday and Friday off work! Just to show how many holidays there are here, the next one is on Monday (the 1st), then another the following Thursday (11th) . It's crazy! Happy Memorial Day, by the way. I did have to work today, however. Nokia doesn't celebrate American holidays in Germany at least.
Thursday, the mysterious holiday, was pretty laid back. Not much going on, except we went to the giant pizza place in Deitenheim! It's the same one from one of my June 2007 posts. Is that ok to link to your own blog? I'm not sure about this blogger etiquette, but I guess it's mostly the fam and friends reading this, so whatever. Now you'll click the link and see what I'm talking about. The restaurant looks the same as the last time, but this year I went with Flo and Stefan's work collegues + families.Friday I took a day off work and had a long weekend. Flo and I went to the Brot Museum! It's an entire museum about bread! I always pass it and finally went in. I had no idea how many exhibits you could have...about bread. In case you're interested, the main exhibit is about Jewish bread. Nevertheless, I forgot my camera, but trust me, there are floors of information about bread. It made me hungry. Later, we all went to see an English movie! It's Illumaniti to the Germans, or Angles and Deamons for the English speakers. I think I found the untapped English speaking people of Ulm - they're all either in Stuttgart at the English movie theater or at the 5pm English showing at the cinema in town.
Saturdays are market days!!! We bought some cheese and fruit for our picnic (see the next paragraph) and food for the spargel dinner. It's basically asparagus, potatoes, ham, and this Hollandase sauce that's poured over the asparagus. I think it's pretty German. We had it a few years ago...I can't find the post otherwise I would link to it again :)
Sunday was a fun day! Flo and I rented a Car2Go and drove to the Alps! We had all this food from the market and brought a blanket and had a picnic on someone's farm. The day started off kind of rainy when I got breakfast at the bakery, but turned pretty nice and warm once we reached Kempten, a town kind of south of Ulm. There was a carnival going on! We didn't stay for it, but it reminded me a lot of Lake Winnepesaukah in Chattanooga. We walked around the town, saw dead bodies (!!!) in the church, I still need to find out if they were real, and went to see the ruins of a Roman temple. The temple ruins were pretty cool, but nowhere nearly as awesome as the ruins of the city of Salamis in North Cyprus. After our Roman adventure, we took our picnic to a field overlooking a village and the Alps. Later, we went to tour some castle ruins in Eisenberg. We liked the castles so much we went back again later! But more of that a little later :) The castles were fun, there weren't so many people there which was nice. We came back to Ulm and had dinner at this Indian restaurant that was pretty good. I walk by that restaurant almost every day here and it's nice to finally go in.
Last night around 12, Flo realized he left his camera at one of the castle ruins. After an extensive search of the car and apartment, we gathered light-emitting electronics and headed back to the Alps. It's pretty cool to go wandering around castle ruins in the middle of the night. And Flo found his camera :)
