Another "Lazy" Day

Saturday 14th
We had a nice bit of a sleep in to start the day off finally! But not all was going to be easy going for both of us ;) Ingo got up and went to help his dad clear out a basement of a house they own in Morbach, while I tried to (unsuccessfully) catch up with my blog (unsuccessful as I'm now writting this on the 17th :s) and then tidy a few bits and bobs up :)

Petra (Ingo's mum) then took me up to the next village to see a church that one of the once village residents built. It's actually a nice wee story. A man (Peter Weber) who was serving in WWII lost both of his legs so he prayed to Mary to get him home and promised he would build a church if he made it home. So with no legs he built a very small and quite sweet little church up a nice little hill that looks down into the village below, and he dedicated the church to Mary, to thank her for bringing him home. And now whenever someone asks Mary for something that is then granted they put a plaque up on the wall that says thank you or thank you for your help etc. with the date or just the year on it (no names). So it was quite special :)

Then we went to past the local swimming pool which was very nice :) outdoors and with 3 different sized pools, on our way to the church where Ingo had his communion. Where we were unable to get in as the doors were locked which is a shame, because I asked Petra if this church had an organ and when she said yes I then told her how I'd wanted to play the organs in all the other churches we'd been to but I was never going to be allowed and she said if it had been unlocked we could have asked at this church and they might have let me! (PS all this conversation was in German :D probably not very good German on my part but still!) We then drove down to meet the hardworking men, but they'd already packed up and gone home - which I think means that they were slacking off ;) but not really because when we got back, they were both hard at work with Ingo mowing the lawns! I couldn't believe it! REAl mans work! ;) hehe so I took a photo (for prosperity reasons) and then Karolin arrived for lunch :)

After lunch I had a few minutes to recover from the massive intake of food before Ingo's friend Martin arrived, and then we sat on the porch with coffee and cake and Ingo and Martin caught up. Not long into that and Ingo's friend Daniel and his partner Francie arrived and more cake and more drinks were brought out :s you can imagine the pain this was inflicting on my stomach! So we sat outside for a couple more hours before we had to say goodbye as we were heading off to pick up Karolin and Ingo's friend Enrico (popular boy Ingo is)...

...To drive to Trier to meet Kristina (who I'd already met in Wellington so was awesome to catch up again!) and Georg (pronounced Gayorg sort of - my phoenetical spelling isn't that great) :D We decided after a quick discussion to have Flammkuchen for dinner as i hadn't tried it before, so we trekked around the corner to a Flammkuchen restaurant with a beer garden out the back. Well this was an experience!

After ordering our drinks and dinner we waited... and waited..... and waited..... Finally Kristina called over the waiter and asked where our drinks were and he mumbled something (translation lost) and then her dinner came out (no others) and then a while later out came our drinks. Then while the waiter was trying to hand them out he managed to lose grip on his tray and two large glasses of beer went splashing all over Georg (Enrico was fast and whipped out to the sideand managed to get away) and despite that he managed to get his jacket off in quick-smart time the beer was too fast and had already completely soaked through his shirt and all the way down his back, plus all over the seat :/ So he whipped off to get changed. While he was gone the food finally arrived, well when I say the food arrived I mean everyone else's (Kristina had got hers so much earlier then the rest that she was already finished) except mine! And they were all luke warm at the hottest :s and we had to ask them to keep Georg's hot as he was still not back. Just as Georg got back we'd decided to move inside as it had started to rain. Once inside Kristina asked them to bring out Georg's food - turns out they didn't have it anymore and had to make a new one, and mine? well looks like they'd never made it in the first place so when we'd finally all eaten we'd been there a total of 2 hours! Enrico I think felt that he had to reassure me that most definitely NOT all German restaurants were like that, but I already knew that :) plus the food and the beer were still pretty good, and the company was awesome :D

But then we had to race off to the arena to watch the Gladiator fighting show that was on - good timing on our part to have our holiday in this month! The storyline was based around Hercules and I think (language barrier) that it was set after Gladiators were no longer allowed to kill each other, so the Arena's weren't making money anymore and Hercules showed up and basically paid the owner of the Arena to let him and his gladiators fight to bring back the popularity, then there was something about a play (a play within a play) and I then started to get sleepy so was hard to keep track, but it was really well done! We then all trekked into the city centre to have a beer. I think we got home around 2am in the end, which was probably the latest we could handle as the next day it was off to Prague!