Designosaurus

Wooo! This was quite the day, or two. Mei’s ini­tial train caught on fire or some­thing so she never got on. Then some other trains were delayed. Then she FINALLY found a way to get to Berlin by 5:00 on Sat­ur­day. Too bad that was the day we were plan­ning on hav­ing Thanks­giv­ing dinner.

Mei’s mom had sent us an e-​​mail with a planned-​​out Thanks­giv­ing din­ner and Mei was fully expect­ing to help out if not be in charge. Too bad, the respon­si­bil­ity fell to Aaron and me to get done. Which we actu­ally pulled through on! And it was one of the tasti­est Turkey days ever. Brined, coverd in herb but­ter, wrapped in bacon and layed on a tray of veg­eta­bles and wine our two turkeys were almost more like works of art. That with green bean casse­role, home made mac n cheese, stuff­ing, gravy, mashed pota­toes and a pork roast from Ben pretty much com­pleted our Thanks­giv­ing din­ner. The Ger­mans who luck­ily hap­pened to stum­ble upon our Thanks­giv­ing feast agreed it was awesome.

After­wards we were all too tired and full of food-​​comas to do much else than sleep, so after a lot of sit­ting there ask­ing “should we go out?” repeat­edly we just went to bed. Mei had to head home the next day but Aaron and I spent the day walk­ing around and even­tu­ally saw pt. 1 of the final Harry Pot­ter. This just left Aaron and I frus­trated that we couldn’t see pt. 2 yet. Oh yah, and it was AARON’S BIRTH­DAY! Yaaaaay birth­day turkey/​Harry Pot­ter! In Berlin! On Mon­day I met up with Anouk at the Haupt­bahn­hof (main train sta­tion) and headed out for a few days in Prague, I’ll post on that next.