April 4, 2006

• Friday Mike showed up.  That was really cool for me because ever
  since the %#&* company my husband works for transfered my shopping
  partner 2 hours west things haven’t been the same.  Funny thing
  is, the company never asks me what I want.(bastages)   I’ve been
  lobbying to get
  him back ever since the transfer….rofl.  It’s hard losing your
  best shopping partner.  Just ask Bear man, now he has to take me
  and he does but its just not as much fun when you know someone is just
  going thru the motions and is faking an enthusiasm for yarn or whatever
  has caught my fancy.   So Sat. we went off to Rothenburg
  for the Spring Fest and the rain actually stayed mostly away.  It
  was one of those Spring days that if it started sprinkling we only had
  to wait about five minutes and it quit.  Then it was sunny
  again.  I think I popped open the umbrella about 4 times, and put
  on and took off my coat about 8 times.  It’s the first time I’ve
  ever lived in a place where the cliche “Don’t like the weather? 
  Wait ten minutes.”  is really true.  I’ve heard that all my
  life but this April in Germany it’s really true.  So while I was
  in Rothenburg I got the flowers for my man.   One for each
  year.  12 roses and a mixture of tulips and  daffodils for
  the other
  12.  For some reason this is the only picture I took and its not
  very good, oh well.
  

  So I brought the flowers in and he was surprised and I think secretly
  pleased.  Guys like flowers too, whether they would actually buy
  them for themselves is another thing.  Me, I’ll buy myself
  flowers.  Maybe I should say I buy them for the house.  Nah,
  they’re for me, they just brighten the house up.  But these
  flowers we’re for him and I think he liked them.  Mike had invited
  us out to dinner to celebrate our anniversary and when he came and
  picked us up I was still getting ready so I wasn’t in the room but I
  could hear them talking about them.  Or me as it turned out.
  Mike: “So we’re you surprised?”
  Bear:  “yeah, but they’re okay.”
  Mike: “I thought she should have went all roses.”
  Bear:  “If you think all 24 year were rosy….well let’s just say
  we had our daffodil years too. This is a good mix, not all red but not
  all yellow and orange either. Some roses, tulips, daffodils yeah a good mix.”
  Mike: “Never is all roses is it?”
  Bear:  “Nope, but wouldn’t that be dull.”
  Mike: “She’s not dull, that’s for sure.”
  Bear: “I’ll say! but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
  pause…..
  Bear: “Are you about done in there?  I’m starving!”  and that
  was that, hmm.  Makes me wonder what they talked about all those
  months they carpooled.

  Since I was done and basically just being nosy by then, I came out and we left.  We went to Burg Colmberg.
  It was SO wonderful.  This was taken from the castle wall.  Looking toward home.

  If you go straight across the fields for about 15 miles you’ll run
  smack into our town.  We went to late to get really good pictures
  so click on the red link up there.  This is the place that I wanted to
  go at Christmas and we didn’t.  I got so ticked off about that one
  that when we were eating supper and it was casually mentioned, I flared
  up again
  Bear said “Geez, Liz just go get a room.”  But you know since he’s
  taking me to Rome on Friday I thought that would be a bit much, and
  since he only said it to shut me up,  I will allow that maybe its
  time to let that one die.  Spoiled much?

  This was the first time I’ve ever eaten in a castle and unless he has
  another life I don’t know about,  it was a first for my husband
  too.  Castles are smoky.  Those big fireplaces, the ones big
  enough to roast a whole ox in….they’re smoky.  Luckily the
  ceilings are pretty high and I’ve had wood heat in my house for years
  so we’re pretty used to the smell of wood smoke.  There was a
  renaissance party there
  at the same time so that was cool.  The clothes were
  fantastic.  Every little detail perfect from the lace caps to the
  shoes.  And you could tell these people were there for the
  atmosphere and were ready to party.  The tables and such were
  pretty normal for every German restaurant I’ve ever been in so nothing
  cool about that.  But 2 foot thick rock walls and arched doorways,
  lead glass windows and a beamed ceiling that looked like it was cut
  from an old growth forest, that is unusual.   When the three
  of us go out to eat we order three different things.  That’s so we
  can share or at least get a nibble.  So we got Beef steak with
  bacon and mushroom wrap, Pork tips in pepper sauce and Veal strips in
  cream sauce.  three different potato’s too.  Can you say we
  ate it ALL.  It was so yummy that there wasn’t one scrap left
  anywhere.  And then to top it all off we got three different
  deserts too.  We never get desert but it was our special dinner.
  (I went to the gym twice already this week and plan on going back
  tomorrow) We got apple strudel, homemade vanilla ice cream with hot
  raspberry sauce and we got a dish of vanilla with chocolate whiskey
  sauce.  Nobody shared….rofl.  It was one bite of each
  persons and then hands off its mine.  I had the raspberries, so
  bloody good I could cry.  So that was our anniversary and dinner
  thanks to Mike’s surprise trip back.  And we weren’t going to do
  anything.  Glad he came home. 

  We leave for Frankfurt Thursday evening and fly to Italy on Friday
  morning.  I have a feeling we’re going to feel like cattle on this
  plane, but I would rather spend the money in Rome than on the airline
  seat.  So I will put up with a lot of discomfort for a cheap
  ticket.  Don’t know if I’ll get the chance to go around and say
  bye before we go so if I don’t here’s an Auf Wiedersehn, Arrivederci,
  Goodbye. 

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