The Last Week

Thursday, Benji went with Opa and Oma as usual, and I went to class. That class is getting more enjoyable every time, which probably has something due to the fact that we're all able to speak more every time. It's hard to believe I only have two weeks left there!

Friday was a rainy and stormy day, so I didn't go to class because I don't think I could've made it on my bike! Instead, Klaus and I went to the supermarket during Benji's nap time (Mira stayed here with the baby phone). We didn't go to the Turkish man with the bread spreads (since I'm not eating bread), and I think it's a good break from him, too, haha. When we got back, Benji was already up from his nap! Turns out he didn't want to sleep, or so we were told. For dinner, I made a rice, spinach, and tomato casserole with some feta cheese, and it was quite delicious! Mira went out to Tobi's house (told ya, Robert!), so we were without her.

Saturday was a big day. It was the first time we put on this event called Weinbergleuchten (which means, literally, wine mountain illumination). This was a 6k walk consisting of 7 stands where 3-4 winemakers were posted. People paid a fee of 15 euros to enter and walk from stand to stand tasting the wines. So in the morning, I went with Sib to W.TH to help get things from there to bring back here and set up (our tent was right behind W.I-H). Lutz and some of his friends took a week off to go skiing in the French alps beginning on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so there were lots of people there--one couple being from Canada! It was nice to speak in English with them. I also got to meet Lutz's girlfriend, Annette, who is nice but not what I expected. So, after a couple of hours of breakfast and getting things together, we finally loaded up the van and headed back to W.I-H where everyone began setting up. I was taking care of Benji all day (usually I have Saturdays off), so we hung around, ate some lunch, and played in the nice weather...it had been raining all week long, so the sunshine was awesome to see! The event started at 5, and they had a lot more customers than they anticipated! Klaus was saying he expected to go through 6-8 bottles of wine, but they ended up going through 85 (just W.I-H alone)! Benji and I went up to visit when the sun went down. Lutz brought a big wood stove and was making/selling Flammkuchen (really flat French pizza like food) for the visitors with Christian (the guy who went on the motorcycle adventure to Africa for 4 weeks). They sold out really quickly!

TO BE CONTINUED.