Love and Hate

I joked with Donkey about creating a blog about all the things I love and all the things he hates about this new EU leg of our adventure. He is a bit of a Negative Nancy or a Cranky Craig, but that is a part of his charm. Here is the list and a brief description of our first 2 days in Munich/M¨nchen.

LOVE, by Me
1) cobblestone streets.
2) creme fraiche in tiny yogurt containers at the grocery store.
3) seeing so many slutty drindls.

HATE, by Donkey
1) old people tourist groups on the plane, the lack of circulation means they have to loiter in the aisles and they are constantly sick, he almost got attacked by projectile vomit. ew.
2) reading labels in grocery stores, we spent 2 hours guessing what most things mean.
3) facebook. 2 weeks later he is STILL trying to get an account.

We landed on Wed morning and our landlord picked us up from the airport. She is unbelieveably nice, the apartment was stocked with almost everything one would need to live except for food and shampoo etc. Every few minutes we find something new that she bought and left for us and we say a common mantra of "she is the nicest landlord ever". The last one was finding a milk frother for cappucinos in a utensil drawer. After passing out from the exhaustion of running errands for my brothers wedding we hit our little town and found a mini supermarket that makes pretzel bread which was pretty mindblowing. Yes, my mind was blown by doughy goodness. We went to the grocery store and it took us forever to understand what we were buying. Cereal, bread, shampoo, lotion and dog treats took the longest time to understand and buy and we were probably in the shop for 2 hours and only bought a handful of things. It was fun and there were so many things that I wanted to buy.... milk chocolate spread! tiramisu ice cream! creme fraiche! There are lots of mattress stores here, which is odd and lots of gyro/falafel shops, probably because of the high Turkish population.

Speaking of dog treats, Taj is slowly getting used to her surroundings but she is definitely depressed. It is a strange new place that smells funny and sometimes when we leave her at home and run errands we can hear her whimpering down the stairs. It makes me feel like a crummy dog owner. She did see a big sheep dog that played with her for a bit and the owner told us about a dog park nearby.

Today we opened up a bank account at DeutscheBank and we just got back from taking T for a walk and getting the best gelato I have had in a long time.... cookies and cream and white chocolate gelato for dessert. Giddy up!