We had a great weekend. Friday night there was a retirement party for the president of the German office, who’s retiring after 20 years here. It was a circus - literally! I took a lot of pictures because otherwise I knew no one would believe it, so I will write about that tomorrow.

Saturday, our friend (and cat sitter while we were gone at Christmas) came over and we baked cookies. Mindi from Berlin was also in town because her orchestra students were performing in Frankfurt. We decided to go visit her, not really realizing that “in town” doesn’t necessarily mean Frankfurt. We took the subway all the way to the end of the line, which took one hour and 40 minutes just to get there. After chatting with her for a bit, we took the train back - which took another two hours! Quite a journey. I feel like we could have gone all the way to Berlin with less effort than that!

Yesterday we hung around the house watching movies and football (even though football didn’t start until 9:00 at night - ouch!). And this morning we woke up to about 3 or 4 inches of fresh powder, which makes everything just a little more crazy than it should be.

Have a good week, everyone!