july 24th and 25th

alright schwuls,
rainy... as b-dog said... rainy. all day rainy. we did nothing really. nothing at all. well, we'll start with the usual.

I went to früstuck... naturally, like everyday... and ate my fill. but it was raining... and so I came back to the room and laid down with bruce... waiting. it never stopped. so... we walked to penny markt and returned all of our old bottles for 5 euro in return. we were wet and cold... but it didnt matter much, so we bought our lunch and walked home. we ate on the balcony and bruce beat me in cribbage. he beats me in everything.

alright... now. bored. rainy. nothing. we did separate stuff for a bit- a little reading and email and a couple drinks of absinthe to calm us down (avoid cabin fever) , whatnot. then, we watched "burn after reading". god bless the coen brothers. it was freakin lean. so good. we enjoyed it thoroughly as it was my first time and bruce's 100th.

dinner came... we were hungrig. falkenstein for the last time... jam. raining... still... we went and had to sit inside for the 2nd time all trip. i ate käse spätzle and leberknöddle suppe and bruce ate steak with kräuterbutter and pommes with currywurst sauce. lean. we bought glasses with Falkenstein on them as souvenirs. the kellnerin was friendly and wished us well on our urlaub and trip home. we went home... skyped... and went to bed.

next day...

rough day... here is what happened and it was not lean, we dont really want to talk about it, but here is what happened:

• woke up for church... bruce found a tick on his body and happened to leave the head in... d'oh.
• spent 8 euro to go to oberaudorf for church (meaning, we got up early) but forgot that it was at 9 not 10:30 (this happens once a month).... jam.
• crappy tennis... back in flintsbach. i need to grow up a little when i play bruce.
• no breakfast and no lunch at this point (3:30)
• back for showers... leave at 4 for oberaudorf, riding our bikes, to make sure bruce is there by 5 for practice (service was at 7... yeah)
• alright, so practice went long, i rode around and had some coffee and whatnot, but nothing to eat. it was pretty and fun, but lonely, and i came back right in time for the service.
• service was nice... but went really long. bruce didn't have time to say goodbye to everyone because bruce (and i) were off to...
• abschluß concert for bruce and darla's students. okay... remember they wanted bruce (our bruce) to work with them over the summer in musical theater. they're nice... but we are on vacation. ok. concert. we got there 15 minutes late with christine and the concert lasted about 3 hours. there was some pretty good stuff... but we hadn't eaten anything and it was long and late.
  
• after the concert, christine was nice to drop us off at the church were our bikes waiting. we had missed the train so we rode 40 minutes back to flintsbach to get home around midnight.
• we were finally home. but... for dinner, we had: 6 kalamata olives, 4 pickles, 4 small pieces of vollkorn bread (that we stole from breakfast room and tastes like something carissa would like), nutella, 10 pringles, a green apple, and gummy bears. it was crap. everything was closed of course, so we ate crap in our room.
  

so as not to leave you with a bad taste in your mouth, there was a great redeeming quality of the day. remember our friend from barolo... the woman that teaches at LSU... she came to jump start and sat with benjamin at the 7 oclock service. that was special and, even though she knows no german, she enjoyed it and was able to worship with us. it was really great. redeeming even.