Beast!

Well, the weekend was disastorous but I think we had a good time and we learnt a lot about ourselves. I am a terrible hostess, navigator, German speaker and geographain.

Beast Arrived on Friday and I picked him up from the train station. I told him to stay put so of course he moved so it was rather hard trying to find him on a platform that he had left. Finally our paths crossed and all was good! I brought him to my resies and introduced him to Pharoah, who was happy to meet him until he forgot about it. That evening we went for Schnitzel and beer (we are in Germany) with Jude, and I had bought everyone tickets for Mozart's Zauberflote. And if you have ever talked to me about opera; it is my favourite opera of all time! So I personally was beyond excited! So we run to the Historic Kaufhaus and a man informs us that we're half and hour late (my heart skips a year of beats) but he kindly allows us in. Much to my confusion the opening piano duet is only being played now. After the pianists finished, a woman in a suit and a man in a suit stand up and a powerpoint presentation turns on. I for one am very confused. Jude and Beast seem a little confused. So after 10 minutes, we realise this is not the opera but a powerpoint presentation of the opera and it's meaning! After 15 minutes we leave. The woman in charge of the door did not give us looks of disdain but complete understanding! It was AWFUL. We then went to my favourite micro-brewery "Feierling" where the beer is sweet and milky (it's not gross) where we met up with my Swedes and Italians. After a long evening there, Beast and I walked home. I got to sleep on the floor which was...not very enjoyable but oh well!
The next morning we went to the markets and to show Beast around the place. Then we have some inspiration to go to Switzerland and see The Alps. A wonderful idea to do on a Saturday. So we got tickets to Basel to see The Alps (Noticing anything wrong with that? We didn't). Off we go to Basel with Schkolade Kirsch treats and we arrived in Basel and we were met with the great...industrial village and towering buildings. We could not understand where the Alps were. We pride ourselves in our geography, especially Beast and BOTH of us thought Switzerland was surrounded by a ring of mountains...it's not. So we were grealt put off Basel, confused by the fact people love it there and we understood it because we knew tha Alps were there. After finally getting over the shock that the Alps were missing we went for a long walk to the Zoo. The Zoo was great fun. We saw leopards with fluffy tails, elephants and other wonderous creatures! Basel is actuualy quite a nice place, once you know that there are no Alps. So if you don't know that, you feel a little stupid when you're there. We crossed the Rhine which as Roman history fans was momumental :) That night we met up with the Swedes and Christie (American friend). We ordered Bacardi Razzes and Beast ordered a Mai Tai cocktail which came out with a colourful strimmer coming out of it and looking a little ridiculous but hilarious. Everyone secretly wanted one. So cocktails came with the second round which were more colourful and outrageous than Beast's! After that, Beast, Christie and I went home (to my parts) to book Christie's flights to Dublin (She's coming over for 30 hours for my birthday!) Christie missed all the trams possible and walking home from where I live isn't a good idea (Beast bought me Pepper Spray, how exciting!) so she stayed the night with me and had a 7am wake up call as I had a choir performance on the Sunday!

Sunday was a better day for disasters. The choir did really well and sounded good. Beast tried getting into the Lutheran church where I was singing and was confronted by a hoard of German grannies who weren't keen on letting him in, but his charm got him in no problem. The church was colder than outside so after the performance I was like the Ice Queen. Then we went home and put on our thermals. Then we went up to Shauin(something) and went up in a awesome ski lift and went high up into the Schwartzwald, it was very misty so it was like the setting of a horror movie! But we walked and walked and realised I am out of shape. We went up on a viewing tower and that was high up! It was amzing, we couldn't see anything past 15ft but still it was cool! When we got back, we went to Feierling and Beast chatted up the waitress to bring him some sort of Bavarian sausage special which looked shocking! But it was nice in the end, it shows you, I strive to speak German but Beast says one or two words of English or sorta German and they're all falling at his feet. It's just not cool! I got to sleep by myself in my bed which was a bonus for the night!

Today, we went on an extreme shopping mission. I am about to collapse most of the time from exhaustion. But we got trad bratwurst, climbed the Muster tower which was...painful but worth while, stood beside a MASSIVE bell when it rung which almost stopped my heart. Beast fell in love with a Gherkin seller, the feeling was mutual. The man would ask me what I'd like to buy while he feed Beast didn't types of Gherkins, both of the boys had a great time with eachother while I tried following his German. Beast's suitcase is mainly filled with Gherkins as he left me with a bag of his clothes here. Then Beast and I rushed to the best cake shop and chocolate shop in town and he chatted up the girl that she tried gift wrapping everything he bought! I want this charm! Then with twenty minutes to go we went to mine and repacked his bag! And we arrived to the station with 4 minutes to go. Theia requested Bretzels so I ran to the Bakery to get then and the idea was to shove them into the window of the train. I got back just as the train pulled away. Beast clung to the window as he drove past. I dunno if it was for the Bretzels or me...I'm pretending it was me!

Overall, a badly organised and mislead weekend...but a great one at that! I had fun anyway :) Thanks Beast xx