Monkey Mountain

So the first of May is some holiday or what not in Germany, which meant NO CLASSES! And celebrating in style.

The party started last night when Fabio and I decided to head over to the Uni for a Uni Party. Except when we got there, we discovered we were the only two people at said "party", and had to wait around for over an hour before the next bus came. And (go figure) on the way back to Europahaus I found a wallet (Hello Karma, it's nice to run into you again). The girl had her address inside it, so this morning we drove to her house, found her, and gave it back (you see, dirty money-from-wallet thieves, THIS is how you do it.) She was so excited and happy, and as we were getting in the car, she came running out with a box of chocolates. So not only did we score Karma points/do a good deed, we got chocolate too.

Then it was off to Affenberg! http://www.affenberg-salem.de/ Which literally translates into "Monkey Mountain," because that's what it was. You climb up and there's all these big monkeys running around, and they come and sit on the railing and you can feed them popcorn (which was awesome). They're like seriously monkey machines though, like they know how to work the crowds. They also have deer and storks, which are really cool if you've never seen one up close. Here are some monkey pictures:

If that's not America's Next Top Model material, I don't know what is.

Then we went to Ueberlingen which was alot of fun, got ice cream, and ran around the town. Weather was wonderful, so we played frisbee, flew kites, and tried to go swimming (read: wading) in the Bodensee, but realized it needs at least another month to warm up. After we got back to Konstanz, we cooked crazy German potato food (which is so typically German: it's potatoes, oil, aLOT of cheese, and, just so that your arteries don't revolt completely and deliberately slash a hole in the lifeboat, there's like 2 pieces of broccoli and a carrot in there somewhere. Possible variations: adding bacon, adding more cheese, adding less vegetables.)

All in all, an excellent first day of May, here's to hoping the weather stays this awesome!

and here is Your Quick Insight To German Culture (aka, Quote of the Day):
"We can't fly your kite, there's no wind."
"Could you maybe try for a little bit of optimism?"
"I am being optimistic. There might be a bratwurst stand in the next hundred meters."
"Christ, you Germans."