The Weekend

I'm sitting here in my swimsuit on because I am supposed to be going swimming this afternoon but I don't know when we're leaving so for now I will start writing...

Saturday at 1:00 we had to take Toby to the train station in Ingolstadt cuz he was off to visit his other grandparents. But we came to the city in the morning. We went to the "bike fleamarket" to look for my bike. The average price of a used bike was about 80 euros. But I found one (w/ out any overtly bad features) for 45 euros. Its pink, and its called a "Nevada". I don't know much about bikes but we thought it was good. It should do the trick. SO now, I HAVE BIKE:) I named it schlowmy schlumpf. (i have no idea how its really spelled. its means "brainy smurf") which, since friday has become Hanna and my word. After I got my bike we headed to the library to look for a book that I could read for college credit. I was looking for a classic German book in English. No such luck finding one, which isn't so surprising. I doubt many libraries in US have Charles dickens and Shakespeare in any other language but English. But the librarian spent a lot of time trying to help us.
After the library we took Toby to the bahnhof and saw him off.
Sonja reminded me that that afternoon here cousin and a friend of her cousins were coming to stay for a few days. They, two women around 40, arrived around 4. I also forgot to mention that a boy from chuch was staying for 2 weeks while his parents are away. He's 14. Anyways, I asked him, and the girls if they wanted to ride bike with me. So we went for a ride past the field and into the woods and around to another village. My bike says it's "all terrain" and that's exactly what we did. I have to admit I had a lot of fun riding around, I felt like a kid too :) Mirjam wanted to predend our bikes were horses. I guess I should say we rode our horses around. The weather was perfect and has remained so. Like seriously perfect!!
After dinner I watched the german equivalent of candid camera on tv with the kids and then went into the kitchen and chatted with the adults for a while. It was a good day.
Sunday was good too. We went to Church. And of course I had to go through the dreaded 45 min. after the service when everybody is visiting. I hate it so much. It makes me miss my church. But o well.
After church we rode our bikes to a dairy farm in a nearby village that was having an open house and my host parents were selling ice cream there. For lunch I finally had the infamous Bavarian specialty of "white sausage". It was ok...not the best but then again I didn't have it with the traditional sauce. lol. The cousin and her friend wanted to see some sights in the area and asked me if I would like to come along. Since I don't believe in passing up any opportunity to go somewhere while I'm here I agreed. We went to a berg, about 20 km away, on a hill that overlooked the Danube/Rhine canal or something like that. In any case, the view was gorgeous!!!
We took a tour of the berg and then had coffee at the cafe on the hill. Then we drove another 5 minutes to a hiking place. I will say again the weather was perfect. We hiked a little ways to a cave and took a tour of the cave. It was pretty interesting and cold. It was a pleasant afternoon. We ate supper around 7, then played dutch blitz and another game which they call "menno-poker". That was fun too. And we stopped a little before 11 then I went to bed to get my rest for the work week ahead.