What a Weekend!

So, I've been reminded repeatedly to update this thing, so here I am, even though it's officially midnight here and I should be sleeping.... ha!

This weekend was so great! I have fantastic pictures going up on Facebook right now and next time I update I'll post them. I took some good ones today, too, so that should be good. Thanks again Mom, for letting me use your camera -- hopefully it's going to good use in your eyes as well!

On Saturday, we went to a city called Naumburg, and there we went to a really famous cathedral (called a "Dom" in German), but I don't know much about it, because it was at most 40 degrees F inside and we didn't know it would be so cold, so no one came prepared and we all froze. In addition, our tourguide's English was only slightly better than my German, and I think the vocab he knew was vocationally specific. He could not pronounce hard "v" sounds, so I spent most of the time trying not to laugh at his saying "willage" instead of "village" rather than actually paying attention. I got some neat pictures of the place, though, so check them out on Facebook if you like. After seeing der Dom, we went into the main city center, and into the old market square. I proceeded to get kind of irritated, because there was really no where for me to eat and in fact for lunch I wound up eating bread and butter, but the town was so small that no major shops and affordable cafes were open on the weekends. We went to the Nitsczche House (spelled HORRIBLY, sorry), and then ate gelato (which I ate for 3 days straight and I'm in love with Raspberry Gelato).

That night, after our return to Leipzig, we went to a party in one of the dorm rooms in our group, and then to a bar called Moritz Bastei, or MB. This place is SO NEAT. I don't know if I already talked about it and I'm too lazy to look, but it was an old fortress rediscovered in the 70s and then turned into a student bar. Saturday night is "All You Can Dance" for 3 Euro, so we went there and it's like this incredible and insane underground and stone walled fortress of dancing. It was awesome!

Sunday, we went to a town called Torgau. It was so cool, and it had a castle that had been standing since 957 or something. It was also their Fruelingsfest, or spring festival, in celebration of their town's charter, and they had fun stuff for kids and DELICIOUS brats, and a lot of people dressed up in quirky renaissance garb. We went into the castle after gawking a lot at the festival, and climbed an insane amount of stairs up a narrow spiral staircase to get the view at the top of the tower. I am officially a stair MASTER. I have sweet pictures from it, so check it out. For you history buffs out there, Torgau was also the city where the American & Soviet troops met in Germany during WWII. We checked out that monument, and I should have photos of that later -- my batteries died on the way into the castle, I'm now recalling, but I made Ed take a bunch, so I'll post those when he's ready.

Alright, enough for now -- I need to sleep. Next time (hopefully tomorrow), I'll tell you about the Battle of Nations Monument in Leipzig today and how I climbed at least 1,000 stairs.

Night - miss you and love you!