Sunday, November 25, 2007

Holiday Hump Weekend...

We started this weekend celebrating Thanksgiving but managed to switch gears smoothly into a Christmas vibe. On Friday night, we went to a small Thanksgiving celebration put together by the expats where I work. All that was missing was a good football game and a Barkalounger to sleep off the tryptophan overdose. Fun was had by all and none of us are likely to crave Turkey before the end of December. On Saturday, the kids were determined to stay at home so we let them. I went walking along the Neckar, snapping some decent pics here and there. On Saturday night, we took advantage of Sandra's being here just a few more days to have dinner out. We went to Das Boothaus but they had rented themselves out for a holiday party. If the people there would have been 20 years younger, we would have tried to crash it. We ended up having dinner at Da Vinci. What we lack in spontaneity, we more than make up for in predictability.
After dinner, we went to Schwimmbad, a club near the zoo in Heidelberg. B though she remembered reading that a Stones cover band would be playing. Obviously hard up for anything even mildly entertaining, we went. Turns our B was wrong. Schwimmbad was throwing a 30+ (Ü30) party. Now that smoking is verboten inside restaurants and bars here, the usually thick smoke was replaced by the dispair of single people well over the age of 30. 10 minutes was about all we could take so we uncerimoniously booked it back to the ranch.

On Sunday, we decided to go to Titisee, a city a couple of hours to the South of us, to see the wonderful snow B had seen the previous week. To make a long story short, virtually all of it had melted! The city was still beautiful and we managed to pick up some Christmas decorations for friends in the States and for the compound in Kirchheim. I would definitely recommend this city for those who love coo coo clocks and holiday stuff. The kids loaded up on hot chocolate at a café where we had lunch and later at a restaurant on top of a "mall". Deep into her second cup, Emily entered into a chocolate-induced coma. She came out of it before emergency personnel could be summoned so we decided to take it as an omen and head back.

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