Today was a bad day. I ate milk chocolate with yogurt in it. I ate macadamia nut cream with hydrogentated yuck yuck in it AND milk powder. I ate some other fake chocolate. I ate chocolate covered corn flakes. It was a bad day. And my tummy is still trying to recover from the chocolate covered popcorn I ate on Tuesday at the Christmas market. It feels like my intestines are being beaten. Not a good couple days.
I had, as usual, a busy week. Thanksgiving last weekend was a lot of fun - we had pilgrim and indian hats that we wore and we feasted. Well, the others feasted and I stuffed myself with the gluten/milk free pumpkin pie I made. So yummm.
Met up with Ning and Adriana at the Xmas markets on Tuesday and had lots of Glühwein while talking with people from Ning's language school. Interesting crowd- American soldier, French club owner, definite German hippy, cute little Japanese chickadee, and an Afghani/German teacher.
Last night went out for Chinese Wok with Ning, Dirk, Charlotte, little Elliott, and Adriana. We ate SO much. I had never had Chinese Wok before - very different than the coconut-milk-with-veggies-wok I am used to. This is more like a giant bowl of boiling broth that you throw things into (meats, veggies, etc) and then ladle out into your own little bowl with sauce in it that you make yourself. It was a lot of fun, especially since I hadn't seen Charlotte in so long and same with Adriana.
Tomorrow leaving for Hamburg! Excited to see the Christmas markets in Lübeck, get my shop on, and wander a new city!!
Talking to Weener tonight. SO EXCITED. Haven't talked to her in forever. YAY for great friends!
I am blessed.
Went skiing this weekend with friends in the Schwarzwald! We were on Feldberg, which had some nice hills - blue, red, and black slopes. Susanna and I stuck to the blue and red. :) It was SO cold - 10 degrees plus wind chill. My scarf was frozen solid and hitting me in the face by the end. The sun was shining though and besides the freezing wind there was very little to complain about. Although I did complain about the loss of feeling/pain in my toes from the uncomfortable ski boots about 100 times. Took one boot off at a ski break to see if I could loosed up the toes. I couldn't even feel them! Creepy. Then I couldn't get my darn boot back on. Thankfully Susanna was able to help me finally shove it in. The Grog (Swedish Glühwein) that ended up being just hot rum helped my toes get through the next few hours. :) It was only a 3 hr drive there so in retrospect we could have driven down just for the day, but we ended up staying the night in a little town nearby. Cleanest place I've ever seen! Went to dinner in a nearby village and after waiting an hour and a half and then being delivered over cooked Schweinshaxe the boys were pretty pissed so I got to "talk" very angrily to the waiter. In Germany you don't complain about your food. Or if you want to return something you don't think tastes good you can do that, but then you pay for both meals. Basically, you eat what you are given and too bad if you don't like it. I told the waiter it was the worst tasting Schweinshaxe that we have ever had and that he should go try it himself to see how dry and over cooked it was. In the end, the expensive piece of meat was removed from both the bills. Granny would be proud. :) And yes Dad, the conversation was all in German.
Here are some pictures from the Christmas markets in Hamburg and Lübeck.. Super fun weekend with some good friends. 
