late update...

Hi guys, sorry it’s been a while since I updated. Life has been pretty crazy the past few weeks! The entire family came to Göttingen, and got to spend a few (freezing) days running around my neighborhood, and exploring what there is to do here. On weds, the 7th, Meghan and Mariah came to visit, and stayed for a week. It was amazing to see them again, I can’t believe it had been almost 9 months since the last time I’d seen them! The family left Friday morning to go back to Munich, and flew home safely on Saturday. The girls and I got to play around my apartment, which FINALLY warmed up, and then spent the weekend in Berlin, also freezing our butts off. We had Karen with us to show us around her favorite city in the world, and so we had an awesome tour of the city, as well as an entire history of every single building we saw! Hehe… It was my first trip to Berlin ever, and it def won’t be my last… it seems like a really fun city, and I can’t wait to go back! The following week, we laid pretty low, aside from going out a few nights with my roommate, and Meghan and Mariah went on a quick day trip up to Hannover to explore. They left that Thursday, leaving me with an entirely empty apartment, and a lot of fun pics… (thanks, Meghan!) Last weekend was fairly uneventful, I stayed in and was antisocial for most of it, balancing out the previously hyper-social month.
In fun news, the stove/oven is fixed, so I can cook again *YAY!* I got to expand Meghan and Mariah’s culinary experiences while they were here, (HA) and have been cooking up a storm since then. While the fam was here with a car, I made papa take me on a mass grocery-hauling run, and picked up a ton of big things that are a pain to walk/carry on a bike home. I got a 15 kilo bag of potatoes, and a 15 kilo bag of onions. The onions are not QUITE half gone, but with plans to make French onion soup over the weekend, they will be soon. Any ideas/recipes for potatoes would also be greatly appreciated. I TRIED to make a Spanish tortilla for the girls, only to discover that neither of them like eggs… echt schade!
The next few weeks will probably be uneventful as well, with the exception of the first weekend of feb. I have feb 2nd and 3rd off, which means: sean has a 5 day weekend, followed by a 2 day week. I’m not sure what I’m gonna be doing that weekend, but Karen wants to go visit Matthias, which I’m down with, as I haven’t been down to Aachen yet to visit him (whoops!) we’ll see how that goes…

oh yeah, and happy inauguration!! YAY!!!!

stay healthy and warm, y'all!

-seany