Highschool reunion...sort of.

I don't have any photos to add with this post honestly.  Well, I might at some point, but I'll need to get them from Sebastian or Dana.  I had a ton of fun today regardless of not carrying a camera or phone around.

Sebastian came up with an interesting way to tour part of the city:  via canoe.  That's right, like with paddles & junk....in the middle of Leipzig.  There are some old canals that run around parts of the city, and there are actually several outfits that rent canoes, kayaks, and row-boats to folks for a few Euros.  So, following breakfast on the balcony of their apartment the three of us set out to find a "Boot".  (No one wanted a camera or smartphone in the drink, hence the lack of pictures.)

We had to check a few places because A) the weather was perfect and B) it's a holiday weekend, but we did eventually find a suitable canoe.  We paddled around for about two hours total, going up and down different canals through some very nice historical neighborhoods as well as new developments.  In spite of paddling for a couple of hours continually, it was actually quite relaxing.  Eventually though, we did decide we'd had enough of a workout and headed back to the take-out.

Following a break for lunch and a quick soccer match on Sebastian's PS3, we grabbed his portable disc-golf basket and went to the park.  Dana's brother stopped by to visit with her, but neither of them came with us.  Apparently, there isn't an actual disc golf park with in something like 150 miles of Leipzig, and this led to the investment in a portable basket.  We set it up in a couple of different places, and then walked a suitable distance away in a few different directions to vary the shots required.  I got the impression that no one else in the park had ever seen someone play disc golf before. Of course, being that the goth-fest was still going on, the people looking at us funny were themselves dressed in black and teal hoop-skirts and/or wearing top-hats in 70+ degree sunny weather sooooo.

Eventually, we repaired to the apartment and followed the real disc golf with video-game disc golf (mainly so Sebastian could win I think, lol).  Dinner followed, and I can report that Dana is quite the cook.  Last night was "french pizza", which is called something else in German that I can't think of right now, but it's thin pizza dough with some type of cheese, bits of ham, garlic, and something else I'm forgetting, but notable for lack of tomato sauce.  Suffice to say it was good.  Tonight we had spaghetti which was also very good.  After dinner, another reminder that board-games are really underrated these days.  This time we played a couple of rounds of Carcassone, a copy of which I may now buy when I get back to the states.

This whole board game thing brings me to another quick point.  Sebastian and Dana crack me up as a couple.  They're both very smart (He's a doctor near the end of residency, she's a law student), and they clearly have their ducks in a row, but they are far from the up-tight Germanic stereotype.  Without waxing philosophical about it, they're just fun folks to be around, and I wish them well.

I'll be departing in the morning to head back south, and I'll be able to do so feeling slightly better about humanity in-general, lol.