One more week down

I don't really have much to report, but I guess I should post an entry anyway to let you know I'm alive.

This week didn't have any major events. We had two Goethe excursions I mentioned on my last entry- one to a local pub, and one to the Goethe house.

The pub was neat because all the food was ordered for us, and it was basically a pitcher of apple wine and a huge platter of meat. Imagine a way to prepare pork, and it was probably on this platter. Can't put up pictures now because I'm at school, but look for them soon.

The Goethe house was Germany's equivalent of visiting Stratford-upon Avon, except it was destroyed in the war and rebuilt about 50 years ago. They did a good job of making it look old and beautiful, but I couldn't get it out of my mind that the house was relatively new.

Other than that, we stumbled upon another random German street fair - this one for the occasion of the Vernal Equinox (of course...I'd throw a festival for that one too...), but the coolest part about this one was not the ever-present apple wine and wurst, or the petting zoo, or the American cockroaches on display in a jar because people here don't know what they look like, or the pumpkin and strawberry wine - the best part of the festival was the booth that sold gluten-free buns for their bratwurst.

That's right, bratwurst with gluten-free buns. Oh happy day. Needless to say, we're probably going back there for dinner tonight.

On deck for the weekend is still TBA. It's my last weekend in Frankfurt! The original plan was to go to Würzburg tomorrow to see Chris McCain's old stomping grounds, but then I realized that tomorrow is Yom Kippur and I already missed one shot to go to a German synagogue for the holidays. It's an orthodox synagogue, so I have no idea what to expect. Then, we realized that Oktoberfest starts this weekend (even though October isn't for another week and a bit), and this weekend is really my only opportunity to go because I start school as soon as I get to Dresden. The only problem is, because we waited so late to buy train tickets, they now cost about €160, plus the cost of stuff when you get there (but I can't drink beer, so it wouldn't be SO bad). So we'll see if we actually end up biting the bullet and paying through the nose to go, just to say we went. If we go, it will be a day trip on Sunday.

Otherwise, good luck to the Dawgs this weekend against Bama and happy birthday to Erin (and Heather on Sunday!)