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Are you thinking this will be exciting and filled with pithy insights about the world or art or foreign languages or funny food? Well, wipe those hopes out of your mind because Jeremy and I are feeling kind of boring and slow-- it's winter hibernation time and the Gluhwein hasn't even hit the streets. The weather is gray and rainy, and we had the daylight savings thing last weekend, so it is dark at 5:30. Waaaah.
Oh wait! This is fun! With Funny Food! Last weekend we took advantage of actual sun to ride our bikes to Bonn, a mere 36 kilometers away. Since the trams go to Bonn, I thought it was somewhat closer, and we didn't even check the distance before heading out. Crazy kids! We stumbled, exhausted, into the first brauhaus on the market square and ate up a delicious quantity of Rheinland homecookin': Himmel und Äd (remember the apple post?) and a pancake packed with fried potatoes and bacon. We took a look at the outdoor flea market, ate some cake, and then hit the road again. Somehow we took a wrong turn as night fell, and we ended up taking the train back home from Bruhl, home of the backyard baroque palace. It was actually not dificult to take the bikes on the train on a Sunday evening.... duly noted.
We are, in an undisciplined fashion, getting ready for our spring trip down the Mosel River from Trier (home of Germany's most famous Roman ruins) through Luxemburg to Metz, France. Now I know that I can do about 40 km per day easily, but 70 makes me a bit brain-dead.
I had wanted to host a fabulous "European Elites for Obama Election Night Soirée", but I realized today that having a party in one's apartment on a Tuesday night is not very polite. So, hopefully we can find some CNN-playing kneipe...
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I can't believe you think that you're in hibernation and ride your bikes 36 km!!! Are you really riding bikes to France? What an adventure!
How does the time thing work for Election Night Tuesday? Will it be Election Morning Wednesday?
That's 36 km EACH WAY. I don't think I made that clear in the post. Whoa!
The weather changed drastically after Sunday-- all I want to do is knit and watch the Daily Show.
Yeah, Jer suggested we go to bed early and wake up at 6am to find out the results... But then what do we do? Run into the streets sloshing champagne around (hopefully!!)? Then get dressed and go to work? Weird.
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