Being Todd's Caddie

Todd came up to surprise me last weekend. I was at a going away party for two of my classmates who are going to Purdue for the last module and I look over my shoulder and see Todd walk in the room. He had asked earlier what I was doing and since he knows where this apartment is he just came in and surprised me! It was so awesome! So we played several rounds of the Dance Revolution game on Wii (which is so much fun) and a couple other games and had such a great night!

The next day I was planning to study for my finals, but convinced myself that it was such a pretty day I was going to go with Todd to the golf course. We hung out on the driving range for an hour. It was fun. I am not good, but I think there is potential there!! Ha! After that it was time for me to be Todd’s caddie. You know moving the flag when he putts, reading the greens, telling him how far away the hole is, picking out the right club…. I was pretty much a pro! And carrying that bag is not easy. I definitely got a work out. I also practiced some gymnastics on the course when I got bored. Overall it was a great sunny Saturday in Hannover.

One more final left and on Saturday I get to see Juliana and Lydia. They fly into Munich and then we go to Pisa, Florence and Venice! I can’t wait to see them! I have been counting down the days and now it is almost here!!! YAY!!!! 

I got tired of carrying the clubs so he had to be his own caddie at the end! 

Beer Bike!

Since the first couple weeks of school, my classmates and I wanted to rent a beer bike and go around Hanover. We had seen these bikes through town several times and they looked so fun. Basically about 12 people sit on the bike and pedal while someone in the middle serves you beer form a keg. You play fun music and ride through the town. Well let me just tell you that it is so worth the 20 euro’s I paid! We had so much fun! Our driver was going to kill us though because it turns out you actually have to pedal the whole time. I thought there was a little engine that really did all the work and the pedals were there just for fun, well that is not the case. There were several times when we were in the middle of a busy intersection and we would just stop. Our driver would yell at us in German to "Pedal ein Fahrrad" (PEDAL THE BIKE!). We all kept forgetting to pedal and were too busy enjoying ourselves. I think I was the worst culprit because everyone kept calling me out but I was just there to enjoy the sun and company. I didn’t plan on working up a sweat! Ha! But it was so fun! I highly recommend it!

Happy Easter!

SPRING TIME! 

I am so excited that the weather is finally nice here in Germany! Except for allergies that make me wake up with swollen eyes looking like someone punched me in the face, it is so great!

For Easter I had some time off from school so Todd and I went to Strasbourg, France.  It is only a couple hours from Todd’s apartment so it was perfect for a weekend trip. Before we went on our trip Todd and I colored Easter Eggs. This is something that my family does every year and since I couldn’t be home to do it with them, Todd agreed to participate. He wasn’t as excited as me about it, but he did end up getting competitive and insisted that his egg was the best one! I am going to make sure next year I take that title away from him! Game on! Ha!

Strasbourg was great. It is a small town in France with not too much to do which was nice because we just got to walk around and relax. We had our share of gelato and had a wine picnic near the water. It was a great trip. On Easter we were driving back so we had a lovely Sunday brunch at McDonalds! Too bad there are no J. Christopher’s around since that is what we were really craving.  Well we went into the McDonalds and began to order… I wanted the chicken Caesar sandwich with a little brownie McFlurry (I had too!) and Todd wanted the chicken nuggets (yes he is 27 years old!) and the total came to 15 Euros. Well I had 8 euro’s with me and Todd was out of Euro’s but had American money and credit cards. He insists that the McDonalds by his apartment takes American money so we try to pay with that. These people look at us like we are crazy and that we still think we are back in American or something. So after calling over the manager who speaks English to tell us that NO we do not take American dollars, we try to pay with a credit card. At this point the line is wrapped around the whole restaurant. I am not even exaggerating. People in Germany LOVE McDonalds so it is always busy and we had been holding up the line for the last 10 minutes trying to pay for our nice Easter brunch! Well after cancelling half the things on our order, including my brownie McFlurry, we paid and got out of everyone way. We ended up finding more money in the car so I got my McFlurry and Todd got his chicken fingers and we sat and had a lovely brunch!

I think it was a successful Easter! :)