Saturday, October 25, 2008

A Bird's Eye View

Today I went with a group from work to a ropes course.



For anyone who likes obstacle courses or enjoys climbing, this is the place for you!


You strap yourself into a harness, climb up to various platforms and then swing/climb/slide from platform to platform. Then you take a zip line to the bottom land gracefully (or perhaps, not so gracefully!)



All in all, it was a great adventure. Although I'm definitely taking some motrin before bed tonight!

Typical German weather

When I first arrived here, I was told that if I didn't like the weather "just wait 10 minutes and it will change". That is definitely true! One minute it's raining, the next it's sunny, the next it's raining thru the sunshine.

One constant here is the fog. Almost every morning, there is thick fog from about 8-11am. Below is a picture of a typical morning.



I'm getting very good at driving in fog!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Die Tiere! (The animals!)

Sorry for the delay in posting anything. It's been a crazy couple of weeks; suffice it to say, having 3 of the clinic providers gone, being on call, being in an exercise (supposedly) and having the admin/exercise time taken out of my schedule (so we could improve our access b/c 3 providers were gone) did not make for a very relaxing time! Thankfully, things should be back to normal this week.




On a happier note, we've had some beautiful weather this week which afforded me the chance to do some more exploring on the trails around here. It's amazing what you'll find in your own backyard. While hiking this morning, I happened upon a fenced in area w/ various large animals. I honestly am not sure if they were fenced in or if I was b/c at one point I had fences on both sides of me! The animals were nice enough to pause and let me take their pictures before hopping away.

I still don't know exactly what type of animals they are, so if anyone knows, please tell me!
I also got satellite tv installed yesterday. So now when my parents ask me if I've seen the debates, I can respond w/ something other than, "you know I don't have tv".
Hope everyone is doing well. I miss you all and hope to hear from you!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Journey to Belgium

So just a very short post:

I went to Belgium this weekend. Not, the entire weekend, mind you. Just for about two hours. To look for furniture. Yep, I went to Belgium for two hours to look for furniture.

I love living in Germany!