nightmare... on elm street, no joke. benjamin's cute wife, our sweet carissa, was overtaken by the itching, ridiculous histamine response of our body for reasons unknown to us. It was almost midnight. as bruce mentioned, the uruguay vs. netherlands game had just finished and as we return to zimmer 1, we find that duck is totally covered in hives. hmmm... ok, so she took some allergy medicine that bonnie had brought and, again as mentioned, used some slavic cream to soothe her erupting skin. it worked... for about 3 or so hours. benjamin didn't sleep all night, in fear of the worst, and kept making sure duck was breathing. this is small town germany. there aren't stores open at midnight. there is nothing open at midnight. the trains hardly even run at midnight... there was nothing that we could do. ok, so duck, being the smart nurse, takes all of benjamin's clothes and lays them over the bed being sure not to touch the sheets (they may be causing the hives!), rubs herself down with slavic cream, and goes to sleep. benjamin doesn't sleep... he's nervous like his mother, so he basically stayed up as long as he can and set his alarm to check on wifey. 4 am--duck wakes up and is again covered worse than before! the earliest we can do anything is 8, so we still have time to wait and try to sleep before a visit to the pharmacy or, at worst, an ER. duck calmly covers herself with the remaining cream, puts socks on her hands, and goes back to sleep. benjamin waits... seeing almost every hour, until 7... time to get up and walk the 45 minutes to the neighboring town to visit a pharmacy as soon as they open. duck's legs and face are so swollen, she tells me that she looks like someone from Buffy the Vampire Slayer... but, of course, I have no idea what she is talking about. I think she looks more like the beast from that old beauty and the beast tv show. Either way, she looks bad and she is miserable. we get to the pharmacy right at opening, benjamin explains in german but the pharmacist needs no explanation and we buy their antihistamine equivalent. duck takes it, we wait an hour or so, and she begins to get better... finally (we now think it must be an allergy to an antibiotic that duck was taking). so, we get back to flintsbach to find everyone still sleeping... duck and benjamin now exhausted and the day begins. we decide to go into austria to a small city right across the border named kufstein (a huge city compared to flintsbach's 2000 people). we all eat döners fo
r lunch and walk around for a few hours. the city was nice, but between making fun of duck's angelina jolie lips and not really knowing anything about the city, it didn't take too long to walk through everywhere we wanted. we eat ice cream and headed back on the 12 minute train to flintsbach. we had to get back for bruce's phone interview. the 4 youngers napped as bruce phone interviewed and then we 4 went to play tennis and headed to the hawaiisee again where bruce met us. we swam and relaxed just a bit before heading to patrick's for the germany vs. spain semifinal. bruce's friend kristine came, so the 6 of us drank beer (yes, even bonnie and duck), ate grilled foods and watched the germans get totally outplayed by the magnificent spanish. it was fun but sad... and when it ended, we headed home. tomorrow, we all thought, would be our day to hike to bichlersee, we needed our rest.
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