Saturday June 18, 2011

Suzanne got to sleep with my Jane´s boy, who knew she needed tiger mojo.

 

Had smoothies, boiled eggs, toast and CHEESE for brekkies, with espresso made in our new camping espresso maker as a dry run.

Went to Gundelfingen town center to get some Euros and looked at some lovely clothes in a dress shop.

Drove to Freiburg to the farmers market which is held by the derelict church and under the overpass with the weird statue. Bought fresh pasta, eggs, olives. Went to the electronics store and fell in love with a helpful brown guy. We were on the hunt for something that would allow us to play Suzanne's iPod in Jane's car, as Suzanne had uploaded a few Rick Steves podcasts about Ljubljana, Split, Venice and Ravenna. We purchased and adapter but could not get it to work and had to return it.

At the farmer's market

"Brownie", the cutie muffin who tried to help us with that purchase.

Driving back to Gundelfingen Suzanne saw a stork standing in a field!

Drove to Aldi where we had to show some upstart that we were older and had more insurance. Picked up a few things there, and then walked to Edeka and tried two kinds of Gruyere - young and old. As with women, older is better. By then we were starving so we bought a rotwurst with the saltiest onions ever, and tasted smoothies and cookies in the store.

Came back to Jane's and packed the car with our pampin' gear (Karen, when she was small, called it "pampin."), but not before testing the tent.

Got our towels and bathing suits and headed for the mineral bath. In the outdoor pool there were all kinds of couples making out, so we were going around saying, "Mind if we swim wif' yo dates?" The mineral bath had changed - the "Rrrrrrrrrrricola" area is outside instead of inside now (this is where you go from one water jet to another, each one progressing up your body from your ankles to your neck. The signal to move to the next one is a bell that is the tone of the Ricola commercial.) Even the whirlpool had changed - there were three, "hot," "hotter" and "you must be a lobster."

We had dinner at the mineral bad restaurant - cream of mushroom soup, salad, schnitzel, fries, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and wine schorles (like a wine spritzer.)

Back at Jane's we exchanged presents and had champagne. Watched the Full Monty and then went to bed - we planned to leave at o'dark thirty to head for Venice in the morning.