Catching up

So I'm sure you've all been anxiously awaiting some updates about my life. Sorry I've been procrastinating so much lately. For a week or so, there really wasn't all that much to tell. When we last left off, I had just returned from my adventures in Scotland which was pretty amazing. The following week was mainly spent just hanging out with Germans.

There was one day where Chandler and I decided to go for a run. Normally, we just go for a quick run through the woods. This time we ended up running for over 2 hours. It's pretty amazing what two guys can do while trying to one up the other. Whenever the other one asks how you're doing, you simply smile and say "I'm good." while ignoring that fact that you've pretty much lost all feeling in your feet. Regardless of what our motivation was to keep running, I think we covered somewhere between 10-13 miles. We also got to J-walk the autobahn.

One of the big events that happened that week was the arrival of my parents. They had flown into Stuttgart that morning and drove down to Tubingen for the day. I was able to give them a short tour of the city and got them some German beer and doeners. The rain kinda cut the tour short and they were pretty tired from the flight so they headed back to their hotel.

The next morning I met up with them in Stuttgart, where we saw a football(soccer) game. I knew we had pretty good tickets but I didn't realize that we were going to be on the second row. Not a bad view huh? Stuttgart came out on top and ended up finishing 3rd in the season. My parents did their own tour of Germany for the next few days but stopped by once more the following Thursday.
That day was apparently another German holiday, though I'm not exactly sure what for. Nevertheless, it was a holiday and so to celebrate, Unterwegs hosted its 2nd Chill 'n Grill (which involves exactly what the name says).

Fast forward a little bit to last weekend.

Last Saturday, we went to the Stuttgart Zoo with one of our German friends, Danuta. It had been a long time since I had been to a zoo but looking back, I can't remember a zoo with so many animals. It was really awesome. It took us about 7 hours to go through the whole thing. And to make it even better, I touched a penguin. Awesome. We were pretty tired by the end of the day but that didn't stop us guys from playing on a playground with a massive climbing thing (we're talking like 25ft high). If this thing were built in the US, it would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.

As if the zoo weren't enough for the weekend, the next day we went to an amusement park called Tripsdrill. Now, we didn't realize this at the time but apparently, this place was a little more geared towards kids but that didn't stop 5 21+ year olds from having fun. It also didn't stop the Germans from putting naked women mannequins on one of the rides either. It had something to do with them discovering the fountain of youth. I'm not really sure.

The day after that, we had yet another German holiday. I seriously don't know how they just keep popping up. So we had yet another Chill 'n Grill with even more people. I should also mention that we have introduced the Germans to the wonderful game of 4-square. They really like it.

Yesterday, Unterwegs hosted a Birthday/Dance party which was a lot of fun. In an effort to continue my adventures in baking in a foreign country, I made a cheesecake which turned out really well. Much better than what the Germans call cheesecake at least.

And so I think that about covers it. Again, sorry for the delay but don't worry, there's still more to come.

Upcoming: Tomorrow we're leaving for Budapest, yes Budapest, Hungary. Random I know but an adventure no less. We'll be there until friday.