Since David’s arrival, we have done everything possible to avoid jet lag. I think it has worked.
Rachel, Katrina, and I picked him up from the Basel train station on Friday at 3:40. I fed him crackers, cheese, turkey meat, and Clementine oranges. We visited the dorms Maugenhard and Palmgarten, cooked some chicken soup and grilled cheese for dinner, settled in, and slept.
Saturday morning we woke up and discovered that it had snowed overnight! We ran to HBR and I showed David around. We went up into the woods and saw the Dome that the HBR boys have been building.
The Dome, named for the arching tree, is a work in progress.
After our run, we went to a Christmas market in Colmar, France with Katrina, Rachel, and Amanda. It was very cold, but fun to see everything.
It was strange to see a market with everything in French instead of German!
We were pretty exhausted after being outside in the cold all day! We ate Flammkuchen for dinner, skyped Erich and Ellen, then went to bed.
On Sunday we went to church (early because I was playing violin). We came home and had lunch with Rachel and two RAs, Chris and Stephanie. We ate Weihnachtsnudeln (Christmas noodles in the shape of stars and Santas) with sauce and meatballs. Then we played Dutch Blitz all afternoon! David and I played soccer in the evening and skyped home. Then, since we were wide awake from playing soccer and all the chocolate we had eaten all day, we walked around Kandern at midnight and took pictures of the sleeping town covered in snow.
This lonely tree watches over the street in the middle of the night
Nights in Germany are very quiet. After 10:00 it is rude to make any sort of loud noises, even in your own house. As we walked through the snow, our swishing pants and shoes crunching in the snow sounded unnaturally loud. All sounds seemed muffled by the snow falling gently around us. What a peaceful night!
