Erkaeltung II

Yep, still have it. I've been through almost a whole box of tissues over the weekend, and have had two bloody noses because all of the runny nose stuff has made my nose so dry. I'm on the second one right now.

Another story: This weekend is daylight savings time! "Fall-back, Spring-forward," as we would say it. NOT IN GERMANY! Here it's "Fall-forward, Spring back!" So we set our clocks like Americans. Gabi called us last night to remind us so we "didn't come an hour early", and so we would be happy that we would get "an extra hour of sleep." We didn't catch those BIG, OBVIOUS hints, and still set our clocks like Americans. We slept in, woke up exhausted (but Graydon was happy that his team that we stayed up late to listen about won), and barely missed the train that would get us to church on time. And we waited half an hour, and it's COLD here. And right before we got on the train, we realized the clock said 6:56, and not 7:56.

So we didn't come to church one hour early. We came two hours early.

Then we came back home. And I was cold. And we tried to get under blankets, and I still felt cold under the blankets. And I stayed home from church today. Graydon went for both of us.

I will have to e-mail my Hall family for those tips on dealing with colds.

On Friday we went to eat dinner at our friend Markus's house. He reminds me of one of mom's friends. He also reminds me of mom. Tell me if this is not a mom thing: After dinner, he pulls Graydon into the back and massages all of his back muscles because Graydon's too tense. And Graydon didn't even scream from pain! (I guess that isn't like mom. :) Love you, mom!) Markus is a body therapist.

But I am getting ahead of myself. Before this he made us DE-LICIOUS dinner! First we had pumpkin soup and cabbage-pie, then salad and cheesy noodles. Then we had ice cream sundays! Wow. We were stuffed. It was amazing.

So after, he dropped us off at the train station. It was about 12:30. The last train, we come to find, left at 12:16. So we called Markus back and he dropped us off at home. Patrick McGaffin, a guy that served in Graydon's mission and is now studying abroad in Stuttgart, was with us. He lived pretty far away from where we were, so he just crashed on our couch. It was cool. Then he and Graydon talked half of Saturday away about their missions. It was cool to hear, and I think it was good for both of them. :D

I think that's really all for now. Know we love you all!