Okay you can stop the worrying

Just a quick update in our household. Today we all awoke exhausted, but seemingly sound. Well except for me. Before I got the nasty one day flu, I had struggled for over a month with a wicked cold which turned in the end into a sinus infection. It let up perhaps a day or two before yesterday. Then I was sick yesterday (which I've already told you about), and now I have another cold. I think I can only attribute it to my wandering so long outside in the cold Sunday afternoon. So I'm taking herbal supplemental stuff which tastes absolutely awful and hope to be completely healthy again soon.

And then it hit us all

Yesterday was lovely. Today... not so much. We had been forewarned because Carolin vomited Saturday, but we figured she was pretty much over it by Sunday. By the time I got back Sunday night from my weekend ramblings, Sabine and Felix had both joined Carolin in the category of people who have spucken. You see, if I use the German, it doesn't sound so graphic. Holger went down around one in the morning as I was off to brush my teeth, and I fell around six this morning. What a fun day. I'm a person who can sleep a very long time, but the only other time I have slept so long was when I was suffering from jetlag. At this point, I think (and hope) that all of us are recovering nicely, I don't think anyone has been sick in the late afternoon or evening. So wish all five of us speedy health so that we can all get back to what we are doing. Here's hoping that tomorrow returns us to lovely.

What are weekends for...

...but to recover your health? Usually it is my mental health that I recover on the weekends, but this past weekend (even through today), has included recovering my physical health. Funny thing is that the entire family got it except for Caroline. How ironic that all of the adults around are feverish, exhausted and sneezing while the four year old who wants to be entertained is perfectly healthy and as active as ever. I often envy her youthful energy, but this weekend the discrepancy between our life-levels was almost astonishing. No wonder people have always been obsessed with the fountain of youth. They don't want it so that they can live forever, they want it so that they can stop being so sore and tired all the time.
In other news, I am taking a trip to Lauf (Southernish Germany near Nurenburg) this next weekend for five days, so I'll try to remember to take pictures and tell all y'all all about it (I just couldn't resist) when I get back. Now I sleep. Goodnight.

Why do I always move to places where it rains most of the time?

It has turned cold. Not that the half of the summer I experienced here was anywhere near what I would consider hot, but there is that definite change in the attitude of the weather which signals Autumn. Officially, the season starts in three days, but Germany lives up to its reputation of punctuality a little over enthusiastically sometimes. This morning after class I went and bought myself a pair of rain pants. Kinda. They're really just waterproof hiking pants, and they won't fit over any of my other pants very well, but I am determined to make due. Three days a week I roll out of bed and bike the eight or so kilometers to language school. Often this is a precious piece of my day when it is just me, fresh air, good music, and very tired limbs trying to wake up enough to get me to class on time. But on those days when it rains... Last week I came into class fairly soaked and quite cold. After that day I acquired a rain jacket. Then I realized I could really use some gloves: so I got myself a pair. Today it rained again so I bit the bullet and purchased the rain pants. As I am sure it will rain again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, I am sure that I will have ample opportunity to test them. My hope is that they exceed all expectations particularly since I have a slightly vicious sore throat which attacked me this morning that I am hope to shake off as soon as possible, and have no wish to add to its company and brand of runny nose, or sneezing or any other of the seasonal illnesses.