so the week after running the marathon, my legs were just in the some pretty good residual pain, walking up stairs and down stairs, slight inclines and declines were just terrible. after a few days though things got better and i cannot wait to run the next one now. basically every day this week we ended up playing settlers of catan, for some reason our catan playing has increased exponentially - it's such a sweet game though. on the saturday, headed to this 'alpamare' park, basically just a bunch of waterslides - not nearly as good as the one in edmonton mall, but pretty good nonetheless, with some good friends it was a great time. on the sunday, just chilled out, good breakfast, played some ultimate frisbee. had to clean the apartment though, for the house inspection and subsequent damage deposit refund....the whole situation was terrible and i don't think i'll mention more than i cleaned more than i thought i really needed to.
on another note, i guess i'll just write down quickly what kind of stuff i've been cooking lately: beef stew, onion soup, herb and cheese stuffed turkey breasts, moussaka, bacon wrapped water chestnuts, eggs benedict - could go on and on haha - can't wait actually to get home and get access to more/better ingredients!
okay so basically a lot more settlers of catan playing, a night playing at the playground, and with all of this also trying to get my knee to feel better - basically just got some pretty bad IT band tightness, really want it to go away. anyways, this next weekend we were supposed to hop on a train to get to fruehlingsfest in stuttgart - basically a 'spring festival' which is just a mini oktoberfest - but with all the goodbye parties and such, basically failed to wake up on saturday morning due to friday night. in any case, turned out to be a really really good relaxing weekend, bought a bunch of bread from the local bakery - i'll miss that part, it's really good - had a nice picnic in a field, beautiful weather, made some gazpacho. head out to luzern for the day on sunday, went on a boat on the lake - very nice - and did a short hike at some point on the lake (burgenstock?) in any case, basically miss the trail that we were supposed to get on, but in the end it turned out really nice anyways. definitely a pretty city, luzern - as such, lots of tourists. there is also a badass carving of a lion in stone there. went home, ate some more bread - and it's asparagus season now (even though it's so expensive), so definitely made some bacon wrapped asparagus for dinner. it's getting to the point now where everyone's basically gearing up to leave, and it kinda feels like the dream is coming to an end..although, i'm really looking forward to going home too - things i miss from home, but also obviously things i'll miss from here. life goes on though - 'don't cry cause it's over, be happy that it happened.'
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