days 72-76: ulm

No pictures this time since I forgot my camera in the car for Nabada 2! Saturday we floated down the Donau and had a bbq after. Something's missing without the pictures :(
Here's something random...noodles on my back...

days 52-76: ulm

So it's been a while since the last post...but a lot has been going on and I hope I can remember it all. At least this post is a little more interesting than last time.
Week 1 of July:
It was the Lasagna Cookoff 2008! Lasagna Cookoff 2007 was really good. Team Slackers vs. Team Make-Lasagna-From-Scratch. I think the Slackers team won. I think the Slacker team won again in '08, even with using the premade spices intended for another dish. That was on Tuesday...Friday was the 4th of July. I celebrated with Flo and the German band, Tomte in the park. They were playing at Ulmer Zelt...even though all the talking was in German it was still pretty good.
Then the next day Flo, Stefan and I went to their hometown in Edertal. The first night I bbq'd with Flo's fam, roasting bratwursts and making s'mores. It was kind of hard with the s'mores because it's almost impossible to get all the ingredients. I got "American style" marshmallows, chocolate and the closest thing to graham crackers I could find, but it wasn't the quite right. Next time I think I'll bring some Hershey's chocolate and real graham crackers from home. Monday we went to Kassel with some friends of Flo from back in the day. We walked up this trail in search of the fake castle, but ended up walking up a closed trail for a really long time then the castle was closed. But that didn't matter, it was still a cool looking castle, even though it was built in the 1800's. Good times.









(the cow is to show it was in the country)

Week 2:
Normal work week...That Friday I experienced my first festival-like event. I don't think I'm quite cut out for the whole festival thing. I like the music most of the time, but it was so cold and wet. The next day was really fun! I promised Laura if she came to Germany I would buy her a beer, so on the 12th I met her in the main town square in Munich and bought her a beer at the Hofbrauhaus. There was a Gay Pride rally in the square. Lots of drag queens and people in slave costumes...We walked around Munich most of the afternoon and she had to meet her group at some beerhall in the Munich suburbs. So after the Hofbrauhaus experience I tried to get directions to the other beerhall and could only find directions to another business on the same street. We took the s-bahn out of the city and got off at the stop and it looked like we were in the middle of a residential neighborhood and a factory...then we started walking through the neighborhood toward the biggest building we could find and somehow found the sign on a random road. that was really lucky

Week 3:

Now! It's been a pretty crazy week. Friday (18th) we went out to eat at Jonas' Asian place, Saturday we met Basti and Sarah for dinner then went to the Light Ceremony, the beginning of the Schwörwochenendes. We went to the Donau to watch thousands of candles float down the river at night.

The picture doesn't really show how pretty it was. Sunday was a pretty chilled out day. Then Monday was Nabada, (or NObada) because of the high water and random trees floating down the river it was cancelled :( So Saturday is Nabada 2, and we'll see if that happens.
Wednesday was awesome! We had our Team Event in Immenstadt. There was a high ropes course for 3 hours, then dinner, then an alpine slide down the mountain. I can't decide what was the best part...either the ropes course or slide...Right this minute I would say the slide because every muscle in my body aches right now because of the ropes. It was kind of hard at first because 1) the instructions were in German and when you're swinging around the trees it seems kind of important to know what exactly that guy was saying and 2) it was really really high.

1. floating candles down the Donau
2. the high ropes course
3. my coworkers, Sven, Michi, me