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! :)