.... because she is a dork like that.
But I'm not going to talk about politics tonight, I am simply going to say, GO VOTE DUDE (if you haven't already and you can).
But while my fellow american were out standing in the cold waiting to vote or getting controversial robocalls, I was hiking through the Black Forrest, a place complete uncontroversial for it's amazing beauty. (jealous?)
This morning I woke up to the radio singing Alejandro by Lady GaGa. A song which normally would make me jam and sing aloud, but in this case made my roll into a tight ball under my covers and seriously regret reading "five more minutes" (2 more hours) than usual the night before. Once I was reasonably alive enough to function on a basic level, I joined in the frantic frenzy of breakfast eating, lunch packing, and backpack stuffing that preceded our day's adventure. At 8:40 we jumped in the car, clicked in our seatbelts and thundercats were definitely a-go.
An hour or so later we arrived at which point I found out it was really freaking cold and was very proud of myself for having provided in my bag a hand, pair of mittens, and H&M scarf that was amazingly warm and happy. I dawned it all, covering my mouth and nose with the scarf as well, giving my host family a good laugh in the process. In retrospect I'm sure I did look pretty freaking ridiculous and compared to the seasoned, long-sleeved t-shirt wearing Black forrest dwellers I stuck out like a sore thumb. We began our journey, finding the coolest path that took us alongside a creek in a little narrow path giving us much more close surface area to appreciate. And somehow I managed to manveuver a camera WHILE walking (!!!) which I find a great accomplishment considering that 1) the path had random roots and rocks jerking out at odd angles (you know like a normal forrest path should) and 2) I am the clumsiest person alive.
The forrest was vast and tall, it's hundred year old branches reaching out bare to us like arms looking for solace, and we must have looked like living action figures crawling between pairs of giant's feet. The trees grew straight and parallel for the most part to one another stretching so far towards the heavens that the sun probably had no idea where we were. They grew on earth and big boulders with full heads of spongey green, rich alien hair. (German word of the day: Moos=moss.) Mixed in with the tall pines and coniferious trees filling our noses with old book smell where bright Deciduous trees in different shades of orange. they where fire raining down on us with the gentle breeze and carpeting our path and as we walked they whispered the unison lullaby with each of our steps (Swish, swash, swish, swash). Once we made our way to lunch time we had come to a large castle with a beauty of a view. We ate our sandwiches and apples and decided that maybe once we got back to the car we would find a cute bakery and have some cake.
So we did. We made our way back, arrived at the car, packed it all in and drove five minutes to a cute little town with a hard to find bakery that over supplied our cake needs with nine or ten different types of cake making our mouths water. I went with a nice, classic Apple cake and really loved it.
That was my day! Hope you had a great one! Hope you had a great halloween! We just ended up playing board games here and carving a pumpkin or two. But don't go thinking pumpkin carving is popular! Actually we were probably the only ones in our town. We had one trick or treater and she was our neighbor. so halloween wasn#t a big blow out but hey, it's a small price to pay for the experience I'm having here!
Sorry for not posting in a while, I really have no excuse either because I've been on break but regardless, have a great week and drück die Daumen for the 112th Congress!
Machts Gut!
Deni
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