Visiting Kathi und Bine...

Well, I managed to get drunkity-drunk-drunk in yet another new town last night... we left Frankfurt yesterday and arrived in Ulm, and Kathi was there to pick us up and take us to her village, Nersingen. Her family has a very nice place in the countryside, and it is a very refreshing change of pace to get out of the cities and hotels, and have some clean air and relax. And it is a special treat to have some great home cooking from Kathi's mom! ...and since Kathi's mom works at a local brewery, beer is in no short supply either!

After a few beers at Kathi's house, we went to meet Bine, Luke & Nadine, and others from their handball team at Bine's place. We just stayed long enough to have a drink and then we went to a big festival in the next village over.

It was very similar to a county fair in the U.S., except that it also had a huge beer garden and a band playing some traditional music. It was funny to see some kid that couldn't have been over 10 years old taking a swig from his dad's liter of beer... the glass was way bigger than the kids head and he had to use both hands to pick it up. Although we missed the 4th of July this year, we got a little taste of a nice fireworks show at the festival last night. Tonight, we are going to see some sights and I think we will go out in Ulm tonight.