silvester and the new year

I spent my first Silvester (New Year's, in Germany) with my friends Katherine and Suz. It was the first time we'd all been together since studying in Freiburg -- fitting that Freiburg was the location for our reunion. We consumed stupid amounts of homemade sausage and beer at Martins Bräu and drank caipirinhas at Stadttheater (delicious) and danced until the wee hours of the morning. On New Year's Day I hung out with Katherine and her parents. We went on a fruitless search for Chinese food, ate pizza at the train station, napped, and went to Eugen Keidel Bad and soaked in outdoor mineral water pools while it snowed. I bought a bathing suit for EUR 18,80 that turned out to be surprisingly decent. We ate Turkish food at Divan and rolled ourselves to bed, and awoke to bright blue skies and the world crusted with fresh snow. Frankfurt didn't get any snow yesterday, but it did this morning -- for the first time I understood the appeal of running in the snow. Sitting around with coffee and the computer feels like a reward afterwards.