I Can't Believe My Eyes

Cheers from Germany!

So, Saturday, after I posted the blog...I was walking down in the pedestrian area where there are oodles of shops and restaurants. Walking down the side walk, an older gentleman was stubling around with a beer bottle in his right hand. Apparently, a little inebriated, I slowed my step down as to think about how I was going to get around him without running into him, he running into me, and without having to say any words in German. Before I could think about what to do, the man suddenly stopped, blew his nose in his hand and then flug what came out to the side. Thank god, I'm a defensive walker and sense enough to stand back a few feet from the incident. It could have been gross!

Not even 30 seconds later, I saw a lady pull her breast out of her shirt and start nursing her baby at a local cafe (no blanket involved). Then on Sunday, July 17, I was walking back to my place and some older gentleman was riding his bike with his shirt open. I thought he had shorts on, but when he got closer, he was wearing a banana hammock...and well, let's not go there. Then, as I was watching TV before I went to bed, there was some mild porn on the station..in German of course!

Speaking of my eyes.....
First, I believe that I brought good weather with me. Except for today, which was partly sunny, it has been sunny and warm the entire time since. Second, the days are very long here. It's nutty. The first night I arrived, July 12, I waited until 10pm to go to bed as to try and get on some sort of normal schedule as soon as possible (to get rid of the jet lag). At 10pm it was still light outside...maybe dusk..but it was definitely not dark out. There are no mountains here to block out the sun as there was in Colorado.

Speaking of excellent weather, I went swimming with a couple of people from work yesterday, Monday, July 18. The pool was about 10-15 minutes away by car, but the pool was huge....lots of kids and families. The swimming park had an 8 lane 50 meter pool, a diving well with a 10 meter platform, a giant kiddie area with aluminum slides to go down into the pool, and another family area for open swimming. I'm not used to pools/parks that size. They even had a giant grassy field in which you could "set up camp" and make a day out of your trip. It was nice. Did some swimming..did some diving.

Made it to the grocery store and back again today, Tuesday, July 19. It's a big trip when you have to walk. On my way back to the apartment, I ran into a girl from work. Her name is Clare and she is from New Zealand or Australia (not sure which). She informed me that there is a much closer market than the one I have been going to. I'm glad I found that out because going to the store was at least a 1.5 hour trip....walking there, figuring out what stuff actually was and whether or not I thought it was healthy to put into my body, bagging my items so that I could walk back, and then the walk back. I was rather tired when I got back this evening...to the point where I almost took a nap!

Enough babbling. I working on getting the pictures up and running on the site. Hopefully, sometime this weekend, that will be established.

Always remember...be a defensive walker!
Until next time,
Betsy =)