Life with a weekly day off!!!

So, during November and December we did a run of 6 weeks without a single day off...and let me tell you, that was brutal.  In January, we've had Mondays off and it is such and amazing thing what a day without drag queen makeup, full-body inversions, and sitting through songs that repeat such phrases as "ladidadida" and "diggadiggado," can do for one's soul.  We've not wasted these precious Mondays.  The unfortunate thing, however, is that museums are closed on Mondays.  So, creativity abounds and I have compiled a list of Monday activities found by the Aerialistas.

1.  Sleep
2.  Eat
     a.  leftovers in the fridge
     b.  Kuchen (Viv)
     c.  Maultaschen of all varieties
     d.  something alcoholic ( we can't cross the day off the calendar unless there is a forbidden workday
          beverage in hand)
     e.  chocolate of the Rittersport or homemade variety
3.  Explore
     a.  last Monday I took and epic walk across the city to the Fernsehturm tv tower, felt like a journey
          through Hansel and Gretel's woods
     b.  Shisha lounge  (not for everyone, but I really like this tradition)
     c.  Birkenkopf (Sara found this one)
     d.  miles and miles of Kraeherwald (local woods)
     e.  sometimes we explore the shopping wasteland that is Konigstrasse, but that can be the most fatiguing. 
          Germans like to walk straight into you.
     f.  The Spa!!!!  Swaebisch sauna spa experience.  nothing like it in the states...we will do this one more
          time before we leave.
4.  Movies:  we've been on a nostalgia kick.  movies from childhood primarily, like Legen, Princess Bride,
     Flight of the Navigator, etc.
5.  Did I mention sleep?
6.  Most importantly, what we don't do....training of any sort :)

View from Fernsehturm...A German friend asked me, "what??  were you bored?"  German efficiency does not allow for long walks through the woods apparently.  I thought it delightful, and with a very very  nice payoff of Bailey's and kaffee at the top.

Bizarre sculpture of a snake above the traffic light in Ludwigsburg

"modified" sculpture I pass when I run by the Neckar R.

This is the Schloss at Ludwigsburg as seen from the summer palace.  Sara's parents took the Aerialistas on an awesome day trip to the palace.  Thanks Steve & Jill!!!!

Viv celebrating 30 with cake on the face.

Lara's special party hairdid.  Cindy-Lou Who?