Christmas

I spent the weekend at my Grandmas house in Schwarzenau. I visited relatives that I had not seen since September and enjoyed 3 amazing Christmas dinners. It was good to see everyone and spent Christmas with family.

The chef at work.

Booya.



My amazing gift of giant socks with equally giant elephants sewed on the side.

Amazing dinner number 2

Country side near Frankfurt.

This is the village where my Mom grew up.

Another shot of Schwarzenau.

This is the best I could do for snow.

Shooters Bar

Christmas Market in Freiburg

Last hurra before the break.

Guy and I toasting to one of many shots offered at Shooters bar, over 250 I am told. A list of the available shots are on the walls for viewing but I decided against actually counting them.

Disappointed that in a land where most beers come in 0.5L size, it was almost too much to handle when this Heineken was a mere 0.3! One of the best parts about shooters bar is not only are there a ridiculous amount of shots to try but most come with some sort of actions or tasks that you must do before you can enjoy it.


I can't remember the name of Guy's shot (to many Rambos perhaps!) but he was handcuffed to Daniella and was 'forced' to stay that way until his drink was finished. Poor Guy.



Damien's shot was not as great, he had to put on this dirty horrendous vest, which I am sure that they use to wipe out the ashes in the urinals every night, and beg for 2 euros to pay for his drink. Luckily for him most people were very generous, since they too had to do ridiculous stuff for the sake of a drink. On the bright side he got to use the money for the shot!

Bitte geld! The guy ended up giving him 1 euro!

Having not seen an Arnold, Commando, Terminator or Dutch shot on the board I went for the next best thing: the Rambo. I received a verbal thrashing for about 2 minutes, a few swats to the head, forced pushups and finally a lap around the bar yelling and Rambo lines that came to mind (mostly Arrgg!!).

Secret Santa

About 15 of us decided to have Secret Santa, organized by Guy (as usual!) Some pics from the events:

In Canada breweries give their loyal customers 4 bucks off a 2-4, in Germany for Christmas they give 2 for the price of 1! God bless Freibuger Pils.

Iiona, Maribel and Sarah, Per looks on from below.

Josh was given his 1st penisman-made-from-a-cigarette-carton-action-figure. Needless to say he was very excited.

I really need to figure out how to rotate pics!

Konstantin is great at telling stories, I think this one is about the time he was on acid and everyone in the bar turned into dinosaurs....

The Last Supper

Last week I had the opportunity to experience an event that only a handful of people in history have taken part in, The Last Supper with Jesus. Although there may have been a few minor difference from the biblical version and the one that I took part in: namely, it took place in our appartment in Germany and not in the Middle East, we had wine and bread, but I think it was a cabernet and not blood and Jesus was facing a red eyed flight back to Spain in the morning for Christmas and not arrest and beatings at the hands of Roman Soldiers.


Dinner! Espanol-style

The Almighty himself

Alex had these shirts printed up to Boycott Tuition fees that are coming into effect next year, support the cause!

Skating in Colmar

Last night the Canadian crew, the Spanish girls and the French (a.k.a Damien) went down to Colmar to get some skating in. Little did I know that Colmar is actually in France until Guy told me at the train station, thus being my first time in the country whoo hoo! A good part about my semester ticket from the Uni is that it covers about 100km around Freiburg, allowing for a lot of day trips and lets me get all the way to the border for free. We did some skating, did a walk around town and then heading back home.

I swiched my blogger to the beta version...still have to figure out how to flip pictures..

Sarah and Maribel

Guy and Damien

Sarah and Maribel

The Colmar Munster

Porto Pt IV

Last set of pictures from the weekend


Oh oh, looks like I'm getting artistic here.



some side street

Not sure what it says, but I don't think that the Portuguese are too fond of ol' George.





The tour bus, and yes that is a 200ft tall banner of Pierce Brosnan holding a beer in the background.

More of Old Town

The Ocean

Jenn and Lindsey



Another one of the old back streets of Porto.

Portugal Pt III

Beside our river cruising boat

The infamous Sandeman, this man was everywhere in town.

The Ferreira distillery where we took our tour.

Portugal Pt II

The Portuguese are very Catholic

Taken from the Port distillery side of the river

Big Pimpin' with Jenn, Libby, Ashley and Lindsey.

Part of old town.