The Schnee has arrived

Yes - the snow is finally here. On Saturday evening, after a day of Christmas shopping, fighting for car parking spots, and Christmas biscuit-eating with Martina and her family, I came home to Tuebingen and was looking forward to dinner and an early night before hitting another Christmas market on Sunday morning.

However, on Saturday night, ALL the buses I can catch had stopped running! I live with about 2000 other students in an area at the top of a hill, and with the ice and snow, it was too steep for the buses or even most cars to get up here.

I met some randoms at the bus stop while waiting for the non-existant buses: a school kid, an apprentice from Stuttgart, and an Italian exchange student. The school kid rang his dad who came and took all 4 of us home! We crawled up the slippery hill in the dad's car, meanwhile, half of Tuebingen is slowly walking up this steep hill because they needed to get home but there was no other way! All the while a snowstorm is going on around us.

And I slipped over most spectacularly at the bus stop yesterday morning on the ice, and am feeling pretty bruised today. Joan and Frank if you're reading this... umm... Maybe the snow will have melted by the time you get here in 2 weeks!


Susie and me with the marketplace Christmas tree in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a medieval town complete with city walls and a torture museum!