sweet, soft & lazy

I spent this past weekend visiting Mandie, who just moved to Hannover to do an eleven-month business school program. We spent Saturday eating large German breakfast, visiting Maschseefest (a city festival on the lake, featuring a mini regatta and introducing us to the possibility of renting a paddleboat in the shape of a VW Bug), and walking all over the entire city. Our feet hurt intensely on Sunday, so it's a good thing it was cold and pouring rain and we could spend the day huddling indoors and watching a movie that turned out to have been partially set on Sylt ("I recognize this place!!" I hollered at the screen at one point). We finally emerged in the late afternoon to eat at Mister Q's, which claims to be "a culinary trip around the world", and is something of a trip, all right: think a German version of Applebee's with vaguely Asian decor and the added bonus that what you think you're ordering will not necessarily be what shows up on your plate. Empanadas and fried calamari strips are totally the same thing. Mister Q's: where ordering is always an adventure! Just not necessarily a good one.