CHRISTMAS MARKET WOES & GETTING MY PARTY ON

Right, so Daniela and I will be leaving tomorrow morning to go back to St. Charles, so this is my last post from Europe in 2006. Surprisingly, I have not been too stressed in the time leading up till leaving, so consequently, I do not have a whole lot to talk about, but I will give it a shot anyway.

Last Saturday I went to Dresden to see the Christmas market. Germany is full of Christmas markets and though they are a nice tradition, I do not see much reason to go to one more than once in one's life. In fact, I think just reading about them and maybe seeing a couple of pictures would be infintely better than subjecting yourself to the torture of witnessing such an experience.

To be perfectly honest, I knew that I would not like going to the thing, but I had agreed to go to Dresden anyway before with the understanding that on Sunday we would go hiking, but this was cancelled so I was just stuck going since my friends were going. Right, so bearing this in mind, I went to the train station with Daniela and packed sardine style for the 2 hour journey into the car reserved for bicycles and managing to somehow find a spot on the floor to sit. We arrived there just in time for the constant rain to start and keep us company the whole day. We shortly met up with Louis from California and Sarah from Australia, and went out in search of Kate and Cathy (seeing pic below). After succeding in this, we started to mingle around, wedging ourselves between the masses to look at cheesy crap and buy expensive food. It was just a mess of people, the same gaudy items in every row, the rain and loosing everyone. Thank God for alcohol, without it, I would never have made it.

This turned a bit better later in the week though, as last night the World Heritage profram celebrated our Holiday Party. It was good fun, but the turn out was a bit small and there was not a whole lot of grooving and shaking on the dance floor. Still good times.

Well, I have to get going, I am absolutly exhausted, and need to finish up some things before I leave. Take care!