Last Saturday, we went to the Allgau for a hot air balloon ride. Marc made a bet that he lost and the price was that he had to pay for his buddy's portion of the hot air balloon ride. It was an amazing experience! Here's my certificate, which christens me with my balloon name: Princess Sarah the charming airborne Amazon from the Föhn clouds. (Föhn is a regional term referring to winds in the Alps.) It also says that we went as high as 1200 m (almost 4,000 feet), but the driver (hot air balloons are driven, not flown) told us that we went up about 350 m (almost 1150 feet). We have pictures, too, but they'll come later...
The weather here has been terrible. It's been raining and not warm. But the weekend is supposed to be nice. I hope it stays that way!
I got the new Harry Potter book two days ago. I'm so excited to read it! It doesn't come out in German for another two months or so, so I'm really ahead of the crowd here.....
Yesterday I had a very interesting experience. I went to the Dermatologist. Now I know that's not that interesting. But she was pretty interesting.....she practices holistic Chinese medicine. I didn't mean to go to a Chinese medicine practicing dermatologist, I just found her in the internet. But it's very interesting, I'll be drinking tea and tracking my diet and going for a facial. Not your run-of-the-mill treatment plan for skin problems.....But I figure, I've been fighting with my skin for more than half of my life, so as long as she's not telling me I have to eat turtles or stand on my head, I'm willing to try what she's offering. I'm very curious to see what happens.
3 comments:
I was so happy to see that you finally posted! Mason and I check every day for new ones!
Glad to hear that you are having fun (and we need more details on jumping into the river in the next post).
Keep me posted on the dermatologist, it does sound interesting.
Hope you are getting ready for your visitors! Andy is so excited!
love,
Shan
That's really fun... I couldn't do it though. I'm terrified of heights - uugh!!
So we finally got another posting. Maybe we'll celebrate with Champagne when I get there :)
Speaking of which, are all German beers dark? I don't do dark beer. I don't want anyone to look down on me for that. :P
Yeah, I couldn't do the balloon ride either. I have a hard enough time riding the glass elevators at the RenCen to the top floors.
So since you haven't emailed me back (color me surprised....apparently you are "busy"), I can only assume you have wonderful things planned. As Shannon said I'm definitely looking forward to it!
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