Jun 21, 2009

1st Baseball Practice in 9 Years!

Well, Andrew started baseball on Thursday evening. He hasn't played in over 9 years (since he left Hawaii), so he was a little nervous. I thought he did pretty darn good for being away from it for so long and he was happy with his performance as well. I guess tradition has it once you are done with practice you have a beer with the team. It seems they just like to find an excuse to be able to put one back! We had fun though because we were able to have conversations in English, which is always a nice thing!

With Andrew working 40 hours a week, it gives me plenty of time to explore the local areas around our flat. It doesn't help any that our apartment building is being renovated so I here construction ALL day... which also makes me want to get out and search for new and interesting things. I most recently went down (Friday) to the Rhine River and snapped some pictures of different structures I thought were cool.




Friday night, we ventured over to the Rheineau (large park here in Bonn) to check out the Biergarten (beer garden) which has jazz bands play each week until the end of August. The band we saw were the Semmel's Hot Shot (type of jazz was hot jazz). Freshly made soft pretzels were the hot item... the poor guy couldn't keep enough in the oven to keep everyone happy. Andrew and I came to the conclusion that we needed to introduce Germans to an American way to eat pretzels... with nacho cheese. We could make a killing! :-) We also enjoyed a few cold Kolsch beers which is from the region of Cologne. They were good, but the most expensive we have had so far.

People watching is definitely rather fun to do in Germany, as you see many different types. We kept asking ourselves why do we go to all the events that attract an older crowd. We soon figured out the answer when we traveled to Cologne (which will be in the next post). A good time was had by all and the only reason we really left was so we weren't walking home in the dark. This upcoming Friday will have a Chicago Jazz band, so we are going to try and check that out as well.

Stay tuned for our fun and interesting day in Cologne, Germany! Oh, and feel free to make comments! We'd love to hear from those viewing our journeys!

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