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Music and a Late-Night Bikeride - 22/12/19

Yesterday I said I was in the German rhythm. I was wrong. This morning, I woke up at 4:30. After whiling away the remaining hour till 6 o'clock, I went to the bakery with the remaining population of our household for breakfast. We ordered two "Sonntag Türme", which are towers composed of three plates: egg on the bottom, condiments (salami, cucumbers, tomato) in the middle, and sweet stuff (jam, honey, and berries) on the top. They were HUGE!
After fighting our way through the bitter cold back to home, we put the lights on the Christmas Tree (we forgot to do it yesterday) and then started to practise our instruments. In the middle of this, though, Lunch-on-Wheels arrived, so we aborted the music in favour of food.
After lunch, we were bored: music was quite forgotten. We played ''Mensch Ärger Dich Nicht'', which is Ludo in English. After this, Niklas was still bored (and so was I) so we went for a night time bikeride. We went up the Sehlberg (our living area), and then along a footpath toward the biggest road nearby (a two lane road through a field). This is a good example of how small Schieder is: but probably the best one (and the one the "Schiederians" are most proud of) is the fact that Schieder only has one traffic light. Anyway, back to the bike ride. We rode (and walked, in the case of Mum and Opa) to the one "major" road, followed it for a while, and then took the same path back.

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